Word: absentia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...taking all sides. Now a major in a Fort Benning armored division (he was detached to make a visit to Egypt), Lodge will have to resign from the Army or resign from the Senate-under a Presidential directive that serves to keep Lodge or anyone else from campaigning in absentia or in uniform...
Champion to date of the 1942 season of honorary degrees is War Production Boss Donald M. Nelson. By this week he had four-from Harvard, Northwestern, Missouri, Pennsylvania Military College. Among others given honorary degrees last week: Mme. Chiang Kai-shek (in absentia), Raymond Gram Swing, Sumner Welles, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Frank Knox, Henry L Stimson, J. Edgar Hoover, Nicnolas Murray Butler...
...Wisconsin, which got a certificate of meritorious service from the Navy, the first awarded to a college, because it had given the Navy's air force five squadrons of "Flying Badgers" (163 flyers all told), more than any other U.S. college. Wisconsin also conferred an honorary LL.D in absentia on General Douglas MacArthur, was rewarded with a message in the General's characteristic prose...
...blackface wading ashore from Lake Mendota to capture a cottage on the lower campus. The daily Cardinal has started a campaign to endow a chair to teach the causes & cures of war. Late this month the university will break a strict rule to give an honorary degree in absentia to General MacArthur, utilizing short wave...
General Douglas MacArthur may receive an honorary degree at Commencement this spring in absentia despite centuries of established Harvard tradition that recipients must be present, authoritative sources indicated yesterday...