Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Neatest Davey comeback was his declaration : "I know absolutely nothing about the financial affairs of the Democratic State Committee. . . . My lack of knowledge in matters of this kind is exactly the same as the President's lack of knowledge of how Mr. Farley raised the money to make up the deficit in the financial affairs of the National Committee...
Ways exist of playing successfully against Adolf Hitler according to his lack of rules,* but they are not the ways of His Majesty's Government. Sir John had expected to go to Berlin next Sunday and offer Adolf Hitler some easement from the Treaty of Versailles as part of a bargain. In exchange for the easement Germany was to agree to rearm without exceeding certain strict limitations, return to the League of Nations, sign the Eastern Locarno Pact and adhere to a general European pledge to resist "unprovoked air aggression" (TIME, Feb. 11). Instead of which Hitler had torn...
...Settlements at Basle, Switzerland, found fundamental conditions growing worse in every important economic area of the earth (see p. 20). After the meeting a New York Times correspondent wrote: "There is no feeling of despair and no fear of an immediate catastrophe anywhere, however. Pessimism comes from the continued lack of any indication of improvement in the basic factors . . . and discouragement from the fact that every one, despite all efforts made, feels he is forever fighting in retreat...
...Personal History" should be read by anyone desiring an objective picture of the post-war decade, with its cant, its hypocrisy, its lack of any workable standard, its deification of Mammon, and its half-hearted efforts to achieve peace. The picture is doubly effective when drawn with Mr. Sheean's clarity, and thrown into bold relief by his painstaking and often courageous search for truth...
...both sides there is unmistakable evidence of bigotry, lack of foresight, and general unintelligence. That an issue could be raised over such a question is an indication that legislation in America is in a pitifully decadent state. In the first place, the proposal of a bill denying suffrage to a group large enough to be termed a political party is proof that the state legislators are not even slightly acquainted with either the state or federal constitutions. On the other hand, opposition to the bill assumes the prerogative of a superior court, judging what a state legislature...