Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...freak defeat of his Government might look bad with European politics in their present state. Turning earnest next day, he announced that Miss Wilkinson's resolution would be redebated, voted on this week by a full House, the division to be counted as a vote of confidence or lack of confidence in the Government's foreign policy. This week a packed House gravely debated the resolution again, voting it down...
...fitting supporter of Dorgan one finds the Hearst press. Professional or dollar patriotism lends itself admirably to the support of such laws and the Hearst minions are at their best when attacking some respected or renowned man in public life for his lack of red-blooded Americanism. Facts, as usual, have but little say and mudslinging is quicker and more effective...
American Telephone & Telegraph, Western Union and Postal Telegraph rushed armies of troubleshooters into the field to unscramble their wrecked wires and poles. After 24 hours A. T. & T. reported more than 351,000 telephones still dead. Newspaper plants were awash; broadcasting stations went silent for lack of power as operators scampered to higher ground (see p. 59). Hampered in their movements, forced to guess wildly at the extent of death and damage, overwhelmed newshawks sent reports marked by the breadth and sweep of war dispatches...
...propriety of a barroom Venus that had outraged the sensibilities of a passing minister's wife. After personal inspection, Commissioner Burnett wrote to the complainant: "The painting is mediocre, the color flat, the style eclectic and the subject trite. I am not concerned, however, with artistry or the lack of it. ... There is no reason why places for the consumption of liquor should not be made comfortable and decorative. . . . Pictures, as well as flowers, may brighten a corner. "Obscene' should not be an execration lightly to be hurled at a painting because it does not conform...
...Commission set out to find the answers. During the past year it had more than 250 accountants, lawyers and engineers in the field, ransacking files, reading letters, photostating documents, copying reports, questioning telephone officials. Commissioner Paul A. Walker, who is personally directing the investigation, accused A. T. & T. of lack of cooperation. President Walter Sherman Gifford said he was giving all the assistance he could, maintained, as he has from the start, that A. T. & T. had no skeletons to hide...