Word: absentia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even tried to extend his long arm to neutral Sweden. He asked Vichy's Chargé d'Affairs in Stockholm to report the names of all French prisoners of war who have escaped from Germany to Sweden and express anti-Vichy views. Penalty: sentences of death in absentia...
...Varsity eight can get away with a first on the Schuylkill tomorrow it will have put away for Tom Bolles in absentia, and Bert Haines the third undefeated season in a row for the crew. Whatever happens, however, tomorrow's performance will spell finish for Harvard rowing for the duration...
After eight years of marriage, much of it in absentia, plum-shaped John Jacob Astor III's pretty wife Ellen was in Reno. Married the year that his coming-of-age netted him an inheritance of some $10 million, she was to have been bridesmaid at his wedding to another girl, who had jilted him. With the divorce, said Astor's secretary, the boss's wife would get half-custody of seven-year-old William Henry, a $1 million settlement...
Incidentally, Captain Jones is a Superior Court judge in Arizona, having been elected in absentia. the Statistical School is very fortunate in having such a talented military instructor and especially one who is able to interject humor into what easily could be a boring course. At any rate the boys are all trying to date up Miss Minnie Mooch for the Business School prom...
Exiled Premier Wladyslaw Sikorski made the two men members (in absentia) of his temporary Polish Parliament. Poles in London and the U.S. tried to obtain the pair's release, and arranged for visas to the U.S. Trade-union leaders, Jewish organizations and such U.S. figures as Raymond Gram Swing, Eleanor Roosevelt and Wendell Willkie also urged the Russians to release the two Poles. During his trip to Russia in September 1942, Willkie made his plea direct to Stalin, and four weeks ago cabled another plea to Russia's Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov. Last week Moscow gave its answer...