Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pacific aboard the Houston President Roosevelt heard of what was going on. He, too, was mum. Meantime Robert H. Hinckley, special representative of the Relief Administration, bobbed up unexpectedly in San Francisco, briskly announced: "Nobody is going to suffer from lack of food in San Francisco. The U. S. Government will see to that. At present we are canvassing the situation and are awaiting results. . . . If a dire situation develops, we will do something and do it quick...
Nobody could positively object to the past record of Chairman Howell on aviation because he had none. All he knows about flying he learned as a passenger on occasional flights over commercial airlines. This lack of expert knowledge, however, did not prevent him from announcing, after his commission's meetings last week in the White House Cabinet Room, that he would junket through Europe next month to size up the power and progress of foreign flying...
...Business stagnation which has caused a lack of rediscounts...
Bread may be scarce, but there is no lack of circuses for Nazi Germany. As a respite from parades and speeches 980 good German workmen and their wives, all members of the Nazi "Strength Through Joy" Society, last week piled into excursion trains and went trundling third class across Germany from the Saar and Palatinate to Bremen. There they crowded aboard the 15,000-ton North German Lloyd liner Dresden for a cruise up the coast of Norway to the North Cape. Late into the night the Strong-Through-Joy danced, sang Nazi songs, drank fat-bellied mugs of beer...
...quaint little story which has drifted up from Washington lately goes like this: At a recent Harvard Club dinner etc. there the first speaker was Tariff Commissioner Robert Lincoln O'Brien '91. Naturally enough the genial commissioner for lack of something better to say, perhaps, made a point of his great age and generally what an old bird he really was. The next speaker, a member of the class of '21, opened his remarks by saying that compared to Mr. O'Brien he was a more fledgling, etc. etc. Following this, our own James Roosevelt '30 got up to make...