Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin Roosevelt has been to the U. S. Thanks to his Legislature and the lack of any great popular upsurge in his behalf, highlight of his career to date is his pardoning of Tom Mooney...
...week dissuaded West Virginia's anti-Roosevelt young Senator Rush Holt from introducing a resolution to put the Senate on record against a third term. Such resolutions were passed to head off third terms for Ulysses S. Grant and Calvin Coolidge. Reason for Garner & Co.'s delay: lack of a sufficiently impressive majority just yet for the resolution...
...When the democracies accuse us of lack of political morality, it is because they have history behind them while we stand before ours-and youth is usually more immoral than old age. An old proverb says that the worst prostitutes become the most devout deaconesses in old age-and it is the same way in politics...
Surrounded? When Cheng Shi-kang, Chinese official of the Japanese-controlled Tientsin customs, was shot to death in a movie theatre in the British Concession during the bang-bang scenes of the motion picture Gunga Din, Japanese demanded that British authorities hand over four suspected Chinese. British, claiming lack of evidence, refused. Promptly Japanese hinted they would make a "test case." Japanese companies began removing their supplies from the British and French Concessions which Japanese authorities threatened to surround, isolate from the world...
...that George Bernard Shaw was once a music critic, writing for London papers under the name Corno di Bassetto (basset horn, a wind instrument). That he was also an amateur composer was revealed last week when Arthur Pforzheimer, Manhattan rare book dealer, exhibited manuscripts of two sweet Shaw songs, / Lack Thy Kisses and Here She Comes, written in 1884 to verses by a friend, a Miss Radford. > Last fortnight the Basle, Switzerland radio station broadcast a gay little opera buffa, La Contadina, by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, second-rank 18th-Century composer. Mislaid in the Brussels Royal Library, the score...