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Meanwhile the Assembly received a progress report on the work of France's courts trying collaboration cases: to date, they have imposed 7,100 death sentences (4,400 of them in absentia), of which about 800 have actually been carried out; 3,000 sentences to hard labor for life; 39,000 sentences of hard labor, military confinement or simple imprisonment...
...other dozen, Anita Maxwell Gil of 101 Paso, Texas received her degree summa cum laude in absentia yesterday morning, and all the rest were on hand to take their diplomas with magna cum laude honors...
...partial answer could be given. Quebec law forbids the licensing of doctors convicted of a felony, and Montel was convicted of treason, in absentia, by French courts. But he was recommended for a license by Msgr. Ferdinand Vandry, Rector of Laval University, where he teaches surgery. And it was Msgr. Vandry who recommended him to the nuns who operate Sorel's Hôtel-Dieu...
...violators were four Frenchmen accused (and convicted in absentia by drumhead courts) of wartime collaboration with the Nazis. The four were small fry compared with Count Jacques Duge de Bernonville (TIME, Sept. 20), who was still battling against a deportation order in Montreal courts last week. But they were guilty of the same offense against Canada's laws: entering the country illegally, on false passports...
...Manhattan, the Embroidery Merchants Association decided that the fitting title for Rita Hayworth was "Embroidery Queen of 1948." Rita was in absentia too (see CINEMA...