Word: absently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...desk with clerks and calculating machines stood Col. Leonard P. Ayres, Cleveland Trust Co.'s vice president-economist who bid in behalf of Mid-American Corp., especially chartered last week as the new top Van Sweringen holding company. Morgan Partner George Whitney was there with Morgan lawyers. Conspicuously absent was old bush-bearded Leonor Fresnel Loree, who has been built up in the Press as a likely Van Sweringen rival. And toward the rear was the iron-grey head of Oris Paxton Van Sweringen. Brother Mantis James did not attend...
After his split with Laffoon, ostensibly over the sales tax which he opposed, Lieut. Governor Chandler last winter slipped a more important stunt over on his absent boss. He rammed through the Legislature a bill creating compulsory party primaries with the high man on each ticket winning the nomination, regardless of the size of his vote. When the Governor got back he rushed through an amendment compelling a run-off primary if the top man did not receive a majority. That proved the Laffoon machine's undoing, for in the August primary Candidate Rhea topped Candidate Chandler...
These seven ministers and the Premier were joined by five other ministers and Fascist Party Secretary Achille Starace. They first sent greetings to the absent Cabinet member who sailed fortnight ago to fight in Africa, Il Duce's son-in-law Count Ciano. Then, getting down to business, the Cabinet acted as a sounding board from which the Dictator announced that Italy was forthwith put on a war basis for the next three years...
...lives in the U. S. and has driven a car for years without having ever sounded his horn is either a bit absent-minded or he is not fit to drive a car. Many many fatal accidents have occurred because no warning was given. It is better to annoy a pedestrian or motorist than to kill...
...allow a reproduction of that Massachusetts town's pride, Archibald Willard's painting The Spirit of '76, to be made for use in the advertising campaign of a Lynn lamp works (TIME, Aug. 12). One who did not so vote was Town Clerk Richard Pratt, absent on vacation. Back in Marblehead last week Clerk Pratt reassembled the five selectmen, read them a stiff lecture on the step they had taken, reminded them that the last time the town government had authorized reproduction of The Spirit of '76 for commercial purposes 20 years ago all the selectmen...