Word: absentia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Elected. General Jan Christian Smuts, to be rector of the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, defeating Scottish-born banking & shipping Tycoon James Lyle Mackay, Earl of Inchcape, 466-286. The rectorship, honorary post which may be held in absentia, has been graced since 1919 by Sir James Matthew Barrie, Rudyard Kipling, the late Fridtjof Nansen, Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell...
...Interior, asked the Patent Office to handle the matter with special expedition. On July 1, 1930 Drs. Coffey & Humber resubmitted their patent application, had it granted the next day. This vexed Professor John Morse Rehfisch of Stanford University School of Medicine (Dr. Wilbur is president of Stanford University in absentia, Herbert Hoover a trustee). In sarcastic comment to the American Medical Association Dr. Rehfisch called the patent grant "an example of speed and efficiency which is a true tribute to the Great Engineer and his strong, silent way of getting things done...
...that he had gone to the U. S. in 1914 to spread German propaganda, that he had returned through England in 1915, that he had then busied himself in the German espionage service in Switzerland. In 1919 France had condemned Charles Hartmann to death by a firing squad, in absentia...
...convention at Cleveland this week was a Battle of Ivry. Like the French Protestants and Catholics at Ivry in 1590, two schools of economic thought were to fight for supremacy. Leader of one faction was Louis Lipsky, president of the Zionist organization of America. Leader of the other (in absentia) was Louis Dembitz Brandeis chairman of the Provisional Executive Committee for General Zionist Affairs (1914-18), Honorary President of the L. O. A. from 1918 to 1921 (when U. S. Zionists, displeased with his principles, ousted him and his whole group from their organization). Now he wanted to oust...
Married. Irving T. Bush, president of the Bush Terminal Co., Brooklyn; to Marian Spore, sister of Commander James S. Spore, onetime Governor of Guam; at Reno. Nev., one hour after Mrs. Maud Howard Beard Bush, his second wife, had obtained a Reno divorce in absentia...