Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Released by Channing Ellsworth Sweitzer, the association's large, able, 48-year-old managing director, was this explanation: "The board of directors has submitted the resignation . . . effective immediately because of inadequate representation for retailing in the council of the Chamber and a lack of recognition of the importance of retail trade, which has an annual volume of approximately $35,000,000,000." Applauded Publisher Julius David Stern's Philadelphia Record: "The C. of C. has misrepresented the businessmen of this country long enough. The C. of C. brought businessmen into unmerited disrepute by its short-sighted selfishness...
...during the one-minute period devoted to extemporaneous speech that he displays an extraordinary lack of ability, generally stammering and stuttering through such entirely confused phrases as "Memorial Hall tower is 14 feet square; and if it isn't fourteen feet square, it ought...
Another apparent and important advantage of the League is the opportunity which it immediately offers for the construction of general agreements which are recognized to be desirous by all but which a regrettable lack of cooperation has checked before. A standard maximum period of pre-season practice, a system whereby schedules would not have to be made out years in advance, mutual scouting agreements, a uniform number of home contests for each team, standard visiting team guarantees and uniform post-season game regulations are some of the things capable of being effected if only some medium of cooperation such...
Actually the Mission votes have had nothing to do with Mr. Getty's lack of success at Tide Water meetings. Whatever his own feeling may be, an overwhelming majority of the other Tide Water stockholders and more than 50% of Tide Water stock, exclusive of the Mission holdings, have consistently supported the Humphrey management...
...tempered West Virginia landowner, born into what the neighbors said was the "preachingest family in Greenbrier County, with dissenting blood as strong as lye." When he got the call to be a missionary nothing could stop him, neither the opposition of his father, his lack of resources nor the five years he had to spend on the farm before he could start college at the age of 21. Daughter Pearl Buck asked him how he had proposed to Carrie, when he was ready to take her along on his mission. "I wrote her a letter," he said. 'It seemed...