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Married. Salvador Franco Urias, attorney; and Jesus Navarro; as proxies for Ludwig Lewisohn, author (Up Stream, Mid-Channel') and Thelma Bowman Spear, singer; in Juarez, Mexico, where in absentia Novelist Lewisohn obtained a divorce from his first wife, Mrs. Mary Arnold Crocker Childs Lewisohn, Author "Bosworth Crocker." In Poland eleven years ago Novelist Lewisohn obtained a rabbinical divorce, the validity of which has since been questioned. He married Miss Spear, begat a child. The Mexican divorce and proxy marriage were an attempt to legalize his position. Mrs. Lewisohn I, who in 1924 obtained a separation providing $55 a week...
Early one morning last week in Milwaukee Rev. E. Reginald Williams, onetime rector of swank St. Mark's Episcopal Church, smashed up his automobile on the courthouse steps. He was fined $100 in absentia by a judge who announced the defendant was "too drunk to stand trial...
...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...