Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Emil Hurja, onetime newspaperman who became a Farley assistant in 1932, was later put into the Interior Department to compensate for Mr. Ickes' lack of political savoir faire, and last March was moved to the Democratic National Committee, Boss Farley has an assistant after his own heart. Mr. Hurja writes the PMG's speeches, examines the political credentials of all candidates. The first question is: "Is he a Roosevelt-before-Chicago man?"; the second: "Is he endorsed by his local Democratic organization?'' If the job hunter's credentials are satisfactory, Mr. Hurja gives...
Second reason for failure was that its leaders did not favor the strike. These oldtime professionals had called it reluctantly when their hot-headed followers had threatened to throw them out if they did not. No strike, big or little, succeeds whose leaders lack heart. Moreover, most of the rank & file had no desire or intention to strangle San Francisco; their eagerness was to display Labor's solidarity. After four days of half-measures they lost their desire for a futile enterprise...
...Governorship after his Federal conviction, because North Dakota farmers believe he is defending them against the ogre of Big Business, his partisans decided to hold the special session, regardless of Ole Olson. The House, topheavy with Langermen, quickly met and organized, but the Senate was stalled by the lack of quorum. William Langer appeared before the House, cried "I am still your Governor," invited its members to start impeachment proceedings against him-proceedings that were certain to end in a whitewash. The House promptly obeyed, 63-10-9. Later the House was expected to impeach Ole Olson, this time...
...represented. There were marked regional differences. Most melodious were Southern poets, who picked dark themes, treated them tenderly. Most mystical were Californians; most practical, Ohioans. Natives of New England and Oregon, its Pacific offspring, were inclined to find their romance in scientific observation. New Yorkers distinguished themselves by lack of originality, as compared with Minnesotans...
...Harrison, as head of the New York Federal Reserve Bank which has exercised a dominating influence over the entire Federal Reserve System and the U. S. Treasury, led New York influences in counseling the deflation policy of the Hoover administration. ... It was your personal fate through lack of understanding of monetary forces to be the central figure in the world's greatest, most inexcusable and most costly tragedy of financial leadership. I ask by what right do you now presume to initiate even a partial return to your policies which have been tested and proved so ruinous...