Word: absents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Franklin Roosevelt, absent only physically from this convention, as in 1940, was still undisputed master of the Democratic Party. With his support Henry Wallace might again have won the Vice Presidential nomination. But the President chose to buy party unity instead. He gave the go-ahead to unexciting Harry S. Truman of Missouri, whom none of the three factions could warm to-nor strenuously object to, either. The Vice-Presidency had more than Throttlebottom proportions this time: each delegate kept uppermost in mind that his choice for Vice President might become President...
Commando Captain Robin Campbell, D.S.O., sociable, absent-minded son of one of Britain's top-flight diplomats (Sir Ronald Hugh Campbell, now Ambassador to Portugal), was wounded and captured in the brilliant but unsuccessful 1941 raid on Field Marshal Rommel's headquarters in North Africa. Exchanged (because he had lost a leg), he summed up his prison-camp experience in an article for London's literary review Horizon, reprinted in Boston's June Atlantic Monthly...
...scoffers, changing their tune, began to speculate on Roger Lapham as a successor to aged (77), ailing U.S. Senator Hiram Johnson, who has been absent from the Senate most of the time in the last three years...
...rejecting Holman and electing Morse, many Oregonians were convinced that they had rendered a double public service. Holman, big of girth, white of hair, loose of lip, distinguished himself in Congress mainly by his absence from roll-calls (he was absent when Congress declared war, and missed 148 out of 239 roll-calls in seven months of 1942). But he managed to be present enough to distinguish himself in the making of intemperate attacks. These he delivered in a gravely falsetto voice which the Oregon Journal likes to call "a high tenor of protest. " High spot of the campaign came...
...Absent from our midst this week has been our inimitable Treasurer, Larry (Winnie-the-Poo Club) Jaffa. The success which met his performance at last week's class meeting, has forced him to convalesce this week...