Word: absently
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Eighty-four Senators were in their seats. Vice President Garner had stepped aside to let Senator Pittman preside. Three empty black leather chairs stood in a row below the dais on the Republican side of the Chamber; Representative Hobbs and his fellow-prosecutors felt it more fitting to be absent when the Senate vote was taken. Three more black leather chairs stood on the Democratic side. The centre one was occupied by small, aging Judge Ritter. his arms folded, his face pale and expressionless. At his right sat his broad-beamed Chief Counsel, Frank P. Walsh, to hire whom, according...
...Bartholomew's distinguished parishioners, Mrs. Oliver Harriman, was absent on the day of his sermon. When she heard about it, Mrs. Harriman declared to the Press: "I'm glad I wasn't at the service. I might have got up and answered him then & there. I have deep respect for Bishop Manning, but I would like to call his attention to the fact that the first Episcopal church, near Cheshire, Conn, was built by a lottery. Bishop Seabury, grandfather of Samuel Seabury, conducted...
...House last month (TIME, March 16), Chairman Hatton W. Summers of the House Judiciary Committee declared that Senate proceedings in the twelfth impeachment, of California's Federal Judge Harold Louderback in 1933, had been "the greatest farce ever presented." At one point 93 out of 96 Senators were absent from performance of their rarest and highest Constitutional function. Washington still believes that Judge Louderback was acquitted partly because many a Senator declined to vote guilty on evidence which he had not heard. Last week, stung by Chairman Summers' rebuke, 82 Senators were in their chairs when the Ritter...
...Voting begins at 9 in the morning and ends at 6 in the evening. No German Comrade dare be absent, and I urge all voters most strongly to vote during the morning hours. By 1 o'clock in the afternoon the election must be over. During the afternoon I will have all laggards dragged to the ballot box. None shall escape us. Klein-Machnow is surrounded and shut...
...levee the U. S. was ranked 30th in precedence down the list of States, the reason being the absence of U. S. Ambassdor Robert Worth Bingham, who was also absent at the funeral of King George and is still vacationing in the U. S. There was but one U. S. presentee outside the diplomatic circle: Mr. Caesar Augustin Grasselli.* Seated on a glittering throne, the new Sovereign received in all approximately 1,000 men-including the envoys of the Great Powers now bickering over the Rhineland Crisis (see p. 24)-in the record average time of 3½ seconds each...