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Word: lacking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Justice to serve a subpoena on him in Manhattan. A deputy marshal failed to find him. Not surprised by the Senate's failure was Judge John E. Mack, conducting a utilities investigation for the New York Legislature. For six months Judge Mack has been trying, with a notable lack of success, to find Mr. Hopson. At Albany last week he quoted from The Scarlet Pimpernel on Runaway Hopson: They seek him here, they seek him there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Black Dirt (Cont'd) | 8/12/1935 | See Source »

...have assumed the Presidency of the South Manchuria Railway with the firm determination to become active on the Asiatic mainland. Japan is going to start operations in North China. The arrow has left the bow! Most Japanese do not yet understand the great importance of these operations, and this lack of understanding will beyond doubt cause a really serious national crisis. The progress of these operations will decide the destiny of the Japanese race and its rise or fall in the World. To carry through these operations a domestic renovation is inevitable which is why I am a champion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Fascist Revolution? | 8/12/1935 | See Source »

...time he had made his first million Thompson could no longer be content with the mere accumulation of money. He had a social conscience and worried over his lack of an integrated philosophy of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Disillusioned Millionaire | 8/12/1935 | See Source »

...believe that such mawkish sentimentality and lack of knowledge as expressed in this editorial comment is of any value to the nation. These Negroes are of a type that are better off "never born." They stand as "nuisance criminals or feeble-minded paupers in the body-politic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 5, 1935 | 8/5/1935 | See Source »

...might read: "In the fall of 1935. Dictator Mussolini opened war against Ethiopia after announcing plans for Italy's Glorification and the Re-creation of the Roman Empire. Peace might have been preserved under England's leadership had the U. S. aided with its good offices. However, lack of diplomatic leadership and no strong foreign policy forced the American nation to repudiate its pet treaty-the Briand-Kellogg Pact-and weakly cite the League of Nations which the U. S. had never recognized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 5, 1935 | 8/5/1935 | See Source »

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