Word: absents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the backing of a majority of the Committee employed his power as chairman to nominate the seventeen appointees at a special meeting, ostensibly called to consider the budget. The officer who by law should make nominations for the school system, Superintendent of Schools John W. Tobin, was absent. Sullivan obtained approval, however, to suspend Committee's rules in order to have the committee vote on his nominations which it approved by a five-to-two majority...
...other law faculty members will be absent during the coming year. Paul A. Freund, Charles Stebbins Fairchild Professor of Law, will go to Cambridge University, and Louis I. Jaffe, Byrne Professor of Administrative Law, will travel abroad...
This done, the council got down to cases on the matter of self-policing. With Dave Beck absent (explained Beck's aides: Mrs. Beck was ill, and Dave decided to take her out for a drive), it unanimously adopted a tough ethical-practices code. Highlights...
...dandy of 63, who plugged not only Dempsey but his own Paris restaurant. From the Argentine came Luis Angel Firpo, 62, once the Wild Bull of the Pampas, now a lumbering giant whose dignity shone somehow through his confusion with the alien nonsense around him. Gene Tunney, anticlimactically absent, sent a message of homage to "the noblest Roman of them all." In turn, Dempsey thought that Tunney was a fine fellow and a great champion, "regardless of what anybody says." Soon afterward, Edwards danced away unscathed, and as they read the closing commercial over Dempsey, it sounded dimly like...
...luminous, evocative New York, shown in last summer's Venice Biennale. Wife of Cartoonist Saul Steinberg, Hedda Sterne takes as her starting point the grid of city streets, blends them with Manhattan's neon lights, ends up with an abstraction she calls "synthetic: nothing is absent and yet it is not a reproduction...