Word: absents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...presently overwhelmed by numbers in the row over the Bridge and is currently saying nothing on a question which only a major earthquake can definitely settle. Last week, when practically everybody else journeyed to San Francisco for a week's fiesta over the opening, Dr. Willis was absent, prospecting for gold in the Philippines...
Frequently absent these days from the Senate committee hearings on railroad finance is their prime mover and inquisitor, Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler. Contrary to report, however, the Senator is not losing interest, nor is the investigation likely to peter out. With plenty of money left out of a $150,000 appropriation last March, the committee this week will turn to the affairs of either Pennroad or Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific, next on its list after the old Van Sweringen network...
Born in Richford in upState New York in 1839, John Rockefeller moved to Cleveland with his parents in 1853. His father, a restless, rollicking, lovable quack with dubious sources of income, including horse trading and hawking a cancer cure, was often absent from home for weeks at a time, used to cheat his sons to teach them sharpness. Where or when the father died is a secret which the Rockefellers have never divulged. The pious mother, Eliza Davison Rockefeller, brought up the moral balance...
...cleavage between brewers and distillers was emphasized further last week at a Manhattan meeting of the new United Brewers Industrial Foundation, devoted to promoting beer as a mild, nutritious beverage "for the American Home." Absent were the distillers as brewers talked of disassociating beer and hard liquor as much as possible, a maneuver to help their cause in the event of Prohibition's return...
John K. Galbraith, instructor in Economics, has received a grant from the Social Science Research Council for study abroad next year, it was learned yesterday. He will be absent from the University next year in Great Britain, Italy and Germany, studying "current developments in the theory of money and banking in relation to agricultural and industrial investment...