Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suit of Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Plaintiff in Error v. the State of Kansas was thrown out of the U. S. Supreme Court last week for lack of jurisdiction. Hence, the decision of the lower court stands. This decision says that no foreign corporation, whether organized for profit or charity, can carry on any activities in the State of Kansas without the consent of the State Charter Board-except such corporations as are protected by the interstate commerce clause of the Federal Constitution. The significance: many another state may follow Kansas' legal action in ousting...
...preliminary set-to before the first team matches, the Harvard and Brown first year men will meet in their annual tussle. The Brown first year men, though they lack the excellent record of their University team, are expected to offer the Crimson Freshmen the stiffest competition they have met in a first year team this season...
...column in his admittedly vulgar N. Y. Mirror, Publisher Hearst was pleased to print young Mr. Vanderbilt's name and portrait. Young Mr. Vanderbilt's column, headed Now, was modeled after the Brisbanal TODAY in other Hearst sheets. Whenever possible, the self-conscious young paragrapher proved his lack of "false modesty" by dragging in his family's name, pointing to a Vanderbilt "folly," such as belonging to many clubs and building "pretentious" houses...
...Liberty he remarked: "Is that all the liberty you have?" This was taken as a joke, but nine years later he said: "Nowhere is social liberty less in evidence. ..." A 40-year friendship with Georges Clémenceau was broken during the War, when Critic Brandes was accused of lack of sympathy for the Allies. In 1921 he declared that Europe was finished and American domination of the world had begun. A man without a church* he wrote "Jesus: A Myth" in 1925 (TIME, Sept. 20). Died. Elbridge Thomas Gerry, 89, father of Rhode Island Senator Peter Goelet Gerry...
...applause was sensational. Last week the troupe finished a 42-performance run through 24 cities spread over 3,500 Montana miles completed in 36 days. Pioneers never lack for new fields to conquer...