Word: absently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quotation, an exhortation to loyalty to high ideals, came from Harvard's Professor Josiah Royce, who died in 1916. Little reason had Franklin Roosevelt to expect that a quotation from a philosopher long dead would awake echoes either philosophic or political. But even a fabulously absent-minded professor, who lived for 34 years in an oasis of metaphysical calm while he walked the streets of Cambridge, Mass, with his arctics unfastened and his eyes turned inward, so that he saw neither the friends he passed nor the trees he occasionally bumped into, may have progeny, and Josiah Royce...
...Giannini bank has more than 400 branches throughout California, has deposits of more than $1,000,000,000, is the biggest U. S. bank outside Manhattan. Mario Giannini is operating head, second-in-command when his famed father is there, chief executive officer when his father is absent, which is about five months of the year. Slight, baldish, Mario Giannini is at 41 a veteran of one of the classic wars of U. S. financial history-the long Depression fight in which old Amadeo Giannini lost, then regained control of Transamerica Corp., owner of Bank of America. Son Mario...
...public the Justices took it up between themselves. Said Mr. Justice Stone in a minority decision, highly critical of his colleagues' majority opinion: "The power of courts to declare a statute unconstitutional is subject to two guiding principles of decision which ought never to be absent from judicial consciousness. One is that courts are concerned only with the power to enact statutes, not with their wisdom. The other is that while unconstitutional exercise of power by the executive and legislative branches of the Government is subject to judicial restraint, the only check upon our own exercise of power...
...Roosevelt of the first generation, Franklin Delano Roosevelt & wife of the second generation, James Roosevelt & wife, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and John Roosevelt of the third generation, and Sara Delano Roosevelt of the fourth generation, all gathered last week under one roof for Christmas. Since Sistie and Buzzie Dall were absent because one had a cold, Sara, 3-year-old daughter of James, had the White House spotlight to herself...
Married. Millard E. Tydings, 45, U. S. Senator from Maryland; and Mrs. Eleanor Davies Cheeseborough, 31, daughter of Washington Attorney Joseph Edward Davies; in Washington, D. C., at the home of her mother. Absent from the wedding was Father Davies, honeymooning aboard the yacht of his second wife, the onetime Mrs. Marjorie Post Close Hutton, whom he had married twelve days before in Manhattan (TIME...