Word: absentia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Garvan's Random Thoughts. Francis Patrick Garvan, lawyer, onetime (1919) Alien Property Custodian, brother-in-law of Nicholas Frederic Brady (Anaconda Copper), received in absentia the society's Priestley Medal, its highest award, for "distinguished service to chemistry," for being "the greatest lay patron of chemistry in this country." He organized and is president of Chemical Foundation, Inc., to which he sold the War-expropriated German chemical patents. Stockholders of the foundation are U. S. chemical concerns which pay it royalties on its patents and which later get back the greater portion of their payments as dividends...
...more gold and guns. With these he may either play Russia's game or settle down to fortify his stronghold in Mongolia. That the Cantonese of the extreme South expect Bolshevik loyalty from Feng of the extreme North was proved last week when he was elected in absentia to a seat on the Executive Council of the Cantonese Soviet...
...Frank Wittington Creighton had grown so famed for his personality and his clean-cut rectorship of the Protestant Episcopal church of St. Ann's in Brooklyn that last October the General Convention of his Church (the Convention that deposed, in absentia, Bishop William Montgomery Brown for his heresies) elected him bishop, and last week, as he knelt before his own altar, seven bishops laid hands on him, consecrated him the 150th living bishop of that Church. At the end of the month he will leave with his family for his new duties as Protestant Episcopal Missionary Bishop of Mexico, with...
...Iowa Professors broadcast from WSUI. An enrollment fee of $2 is charged, $4 thereafter per semester hour of final credit granted. Thus a radio student can take, for $60 or so, a course that would cost a college attendant from $200 to $600. Last spring one Clifford Liddeen, in absentia in Texas, received his degree. This fall the University offers courses in: Early Iowa History, American Literature, Iowa Flora, English, and Elementary Psychology...
...American Army." We dressed the degree people up in scarlet gowns and velvet hats, and all went down in cars; Wanda had a seat with me. It was really a wonderful sight. Lord Curzon was gorgeous. The Prince did not come, but the degree was given in absentia. Pershing had a splendid reception, as did Mr. Hoover; but Haig was the hero, I never heard such a racket. Joffre looks old and sad; worn out, I fancy...