Word: absenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Great Britain, Irish Free State, Turkey, Norway, Greece were other complainants. Notably absent from the list were Canada and the A-B-C powers of South America. Canada, protested informally, in an oral statement by Minister Vincent Massey hinting at a high Canadian wheat tariff in retaliation for the proposed U. S. duties on lumber and shingles. Having had the list published, Senator Harrison next engaged Senator Smoot in an altercation on what the protests signified. Senator Smoot at first belittled them, called them "unimportant . . . similar in substance to former protests." Senator Harrison called them the result...
...tide in the Senate, finally leaving it to President Hoover to interpose his own political authority to straighten out the legislative mess. President Hoover had wanted a suspension of National Origins. Leader Watson last week was unable to muster enough party votes to consummate that Hoover wish, was even absent himself on the roll call...
Wednesday. Following Stanley Baldwin's retirement. Ramsay James MacDonald went to Windsor, umbrella in hand, obedient to a royal summons, and accepted the King's command to form a new government. King George was out of bed and sitting up to receive him, but little Princess Elizabeth was noticeably absent...
...average daily number of students absent from college and excused because of sickness was 52 61. This was 3.96 less than the year before. The average number of days of absence per student was 3 04, also less than the year before...
Among the black-and-white Dominicans and black Benedictines who attended the ceremony, sat Mlle. Chantel de la Flech%#232;re, who claims collateral kinship with La Pucelle. Absent was the present Earl of Warwick, 18-year-old Charles Guy Fulke Greville...