Word: absente
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remaining interest to the Fatherland for "much less" than the French have been offering, received a mere 100 million marks ($23,820,000). The Dutch end of the deal was quietly arranged. For good or evil, Chancellor von Papen must go down in history as the man who while absent in Switzerland brought under German Government control last week more than two-fifths of the Fatherland's production of pig iron and rolled steel and nearly one-sixth of its coal and iron ore mining industry...
...Bliss, a recent appointee,* brother and estate executor of the late Lizzie Bliss, benefactor of the Museum of Art. Conscientious, publicity shy, Cornelius Bliss is stanch for his late sister's modern art. When Curator Burroughs presented his nine selections to the Committee, Committeemen Gilbert and Root were absent. The Committee passed nine pictures on to the Board of Trustees, who directed Curator Burroughs to buy them. Fame had come to the living, in one case too late. Artist Glenn O. Coleman whose Speakeasy, painted with bright, shallow verve, was bought, died last month. The other young men: Kansan...
...roll call gave President Hoover 1,126½ votes. Wisconsin's Senator Elaine received 13; Coolidge, 4½; France, 4; Charles Gates Dawes, 1; New York's one-time Senator James Wadsworth, i; Absent...
...Other votes: U. S. Minister to Canada Mac-Xider, 182 3/4; General Harbord, 161 3/4; Alvan Fuller, onetime Governor of Massachusetts, 57; Snell, 56; all others, 55 1/2 absent...
Movements as well as people were absent. There was no Revolt of the Farmers such as led to the withdrawal of Frank Orren Lowden in 1928. There was no Economic Insurgency. There were no "Allies" banded against the leading candidate. Chicago was calm, composed, conservative, deadly dull...