Word: absentia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Roosevelt will attract more attention than any other of the hundreds which the universities and colleges of the country, as a whole, will confer within the next few days. Usually such degrees are not announced in advance; since they are conferred in person and very rarely "in absentia,'" the recipient is cautioned to regard the news of the honor about to fall upon him as confidential. It is not yet known to whom will fall the added distinction of receiving their degrees on the same platform with the President. In his case the publicity which attends his movements made...
When Commencement season arrived last year university trustees with honorary degrees to pass around turned instinctively to the new President's Cabinet. They were stopped at the top because Secretary of State Hull was away at the London Economic Conference and universities rarely bestow their kudos in absentia. So Syracuse led off by making Secretary of the Treasury Woodin a Doctor of Music. Secretary of War Dern got an LL. D. from Pennsylvania Military College. Postmaster General Farley became, by grace of the University of the South, a Doctor of Civil Law. Washington & Jefferson gave Secretary of the Interior...
Professor Salvemini has lost no time in replaying to the story in the Ialian press implicating him in a bomb explosion in St. Peter's last Summer. He has cabled to II Duce demanding that he be tried and convicted "in absentia" and that the Italian Government then apply for his extradition from the United States. He told the newspaper men that the addition of his name to the list of six men hitherto mentioned in connection with the crime was apparently an after-thought on the part of the Italian Government...
...Poor Richard Club in Philadelphia, celebrating the 228th birthday of Benjamin Franklin, President Roosevelt sent a message praising his namesake's sanity. The club thereupon awarded its annual Poor Richard Achievement Medal, in absentia, to Walt Disney on whose behalf it was accepted by Eddie Cantor...
...years leader of the Bulgarian Communist Party, was articulate. Trials, even death sentences, are no novelty for him. In 1924, after the horrible bombing of Sofia's Sveti Krai Cathedral in which more than 200 people were killed, he was accused of high treason, condemned to death in absentia. Knowing there was little hope from this Nazi court, Communist Dimitroff blustered and roared his way through the trial while timorous, law-abiding Germans hung open-mouthed on his words. Nothing seemed to annoy bullet-headed Presiding Judge Blanker like the defend ant's persistent snapping of the word...