Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...took one of the least pleasant assignments in a career which had taken him from Poland to Peru. Only difficulty he was spared was the presence of a U. S. Minister at Monrovia. Charles E. Mitchell, the last to hold that post, had been retired because of the prolonged lack of recognition of Liberia. As Charge d'Affaires. Mr. Hibbard had spent long days in polite palaver with Liberian kinkywigs, long nights swatting mosquitoes and tropical vermin. Finally he proposed a deal: Mr. Firestone would cut interest on his Liberian loan from 7% to 5%; Liberia would frown...
...Department has always been severely handicapped by a deficiency of personnel. This lack of sufficient medical advisors has led to the hasty examinations and insufficient treatment which constitutes the main criticism of the for men organization...
Your other comments are, however, based upon the same intolerance and lack of perspective of which you accuse me. I can find no evidence to support your contention that Hearst's policies are provincial, irresponsible, or a perversion of democratic principles. Nor can I find assurance that we are "cursed with an antiquated economic system," and headed for faseiqui. On the contrary there are many fine minds in this country who hold, with Hearst, that high tariffs, naval supremacy, and freedom from foreign entanglements will assist the salvation of this country. You confuse, I am afraid, intolerance with freedom...
...Miami Biltmore Hotel last January two masked men stripped Mrs. Margaret Hawkesworth Bell, onetime Follies dancer, of jewels insured at $185,000, took watch and cash from her companion Harry Content, 74-year-old Manhattan broker. Two petty thieves were shortly picked up, charged with the crime. For lack of identification one was let off. The other was given a short penitentiary sentence. Meantime Miami's chief of detectives turned up with the jewels, announcing that someone had obligingly tossed them into his automobile...
Businessmen talked fast and long last week about salvaging the good features of their respective codes. Trouble with that idea, as with the codes themselves, was the conspicuous lack of agreement on what were good features. What was good to one group was bad to another-if not within that industry, at least to another industry. The Oil Code, largely honored in the breach even before the Supreme Court cracked it open last winter, irritated the big oil companies and pleased some-but not all-little fellows. Actually the passing of the Oil Code will have little effect...