Word: dearth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mail editions. Democratic Postmaster General Farley, unlike his predecessor, has a sporting background. He likes sporting people, goes to races and fights. For nearly ten years he ran the New York State Boxing Commission. Last fortnight Postmaster General Farley took steps to make sure that there would be no dearth of news about winners on this year's Grand National by announcing that the Post Office would follow a ''liberal policy'' in construing the statute about lottery information. That let down the bars. Even the New York Sun forgot its hidebound caution long enough...
...Dearth of smoking pictures is due merely to failure of cameramen to click. Only smoking-picture of Mr. Roosevelt in the files of Manhattan agencies is here shown (see cut). It was taken seven months before his election, at a Manhattan luncheon for the Boy Scout Foundation. At Mr. Roosevelt's left is Barron Collier, car card advertising tycoon and real estate speculator who last month got a three-month moratorium on his $17,000,000 debts, under the Hoover bankruptcy law.-ED. As an olrltime consistent reader of TIME I appeal to you for some information to satisfy...
...even with a dearth of ideas President Keppel and his Carnegie trustees managed in one year to rain $4,855,747 in philanthropic manna down upon all the English-speaking world. As usual library interests got most of the Carnegie bounty-$1,186,300. They needed it, for, while the total income of 21 ranking public libraries in the U. S. was dropping from $11,600,000 to $8,800,000 in two years, book circulation was jumping from...
...familiar martial strains of "Wintergreen for President," Manhattan first-nighters applauded happily. They recalled what a fine show Of Thee I Sing had been, leaned back in their seats to enjoy its sequel. But when the curtain fell on Let 'em Eat Cake there was an embarrassing dearth of applause. Critics and spectators went out grumbling that the nation's great musicomedy quadrivirate had lain down on their job, had served up a poorly warmed-over dish. If Let 'em Eat Cake was to repeat its predecessor's two-year run, its authors would have...
...loss of effusions such as those of the youthful Lincoln Steffens. What an opening there is for editors who can today, blud-goon graft and corruption with sweetness and light, as others did of yore, all with the accompaniment of sounding trumpets and falling walls. There is an intolerable dearth of succulent revelations and fat, juicy accusation, of harrowing, sordid, revolting, delightful delineation of sin and portraits of the vicious, shameless, guilt and scarlet sinners. There is a lack of pleasant self-righteous indictment done in the Lord's vineyard...