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...Poor Richard Club in Philadelphia, celebrating the 228th birthday of Benjamin Franklin, President Roosevelt sent a message praising his namesake's sanity. The club thereupon awarded its annual Poor Richard Achievement Medal, in absentia, to Walt Disney on whose behalf it was accepted by Eddie Cantor...
...years leader of the Bulgarian Communist Party, was articulate. Trials, even death sentences, are no novelty for him. In 1924, after the horrible bombing of Sofia's Sveti Krai Cathedral in which more than 200 people were killed, he was accused of high treason, condemned to death in absentia. Knowing there was little hope from this Nazi court, Communist Dimitroff blustered and roared his way through the trial while timorous, law-abiding Germans hung open-mouthed on his words. Nothing seemed to annoy bullet-headed Presiding Judge Blanker like the defend ant's persistent snapping of the word...
Colgate University (Hamilton, N. Y.) George Leslie Harrison, Governor of New York's Federal Reserve Bank (in absentia) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .LL.D. Edgar Nelson Rhodes, Canada's Finance Minister (in absentia). . . . . . LL.D. Vice President Herbert Abram Baker of American Can Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sc.D. George Parmly Day, Yale University treasurer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. President Robert Devore Leigh of Bennington College (Vt.) . . . . . . . . . . . .LL.D...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (in absentia -"I am virtually imprisoned ...") LL.D. Chancellor John Gabbert Bowman of the University of Pittsburgh ... LL.D. Professor Edwin Walter Kemmerer of Princeton University .... Sc.D...
Loyola University (Chicago, Ill.) Commander Italo Balbo, Italy's Air Minister, leading an Italian air squadron to the World's Fair (in absentia) LL.D...