Word: absents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paul Douglas, 49, an absent-minded economics professor at the University of Chicago, now a Chicago alderman who acts as gadfly to the machine, a New Dealer who has little downstate appeal...
...Married men up to 35, single men up to 45 were made subject to military call. Every other able-bodied person in Australia, including enemy aliens not interned, became subject to call for war work. Employes on war jobs were forbidden to quit or be absent from work without good reason...
...popped a face-to-face verbal brawl between Virginia's pinchfist Harry Byrd, hot opponent of pensions, and Wyoming's Joseph O'Mahoney, who stressed the fact that he had been "absent" when the bill passed. O'Mahoney roared that Congress was being "smeared" as a "conglomeration of grab-seeking individuals.'' Shouted Byrd: "I have never smeared the members of Congress. . . . The Senator shows ignorance...
Last week Editor Daniels added a commentary on his Navy days: "Even when I was 'absent without leave' from the sanctum during the eight years as Secretary of the Navy in the Woodrow Wilson administration,'' chuckled old Josephus, "I thought of myself as managing editor of the Navy rather than as a Cabinet official...
Courses were started over again in January and April 1919 for those who had returned. That year there were two summer school sessions of six and five weeks respectively. These extra sessions enabled the students who had been absent to catch up in their work, and to regain time that had been taken up in fighting...