Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Affaires Rafael Forns called immediately on Cuban Secretary of State Orestes Ferrara, sniffed indignantly at the latter's suggestion that all official moves be postponed until after a Cuban "judicial investigation." Next day he delivered his Government's formal note, a message conspicuous for its lack of diplomatic phrases. Its gist...
...themselves behind a bill by Mississippi's Busby to issue $3,000,000,000 in new bonds and inflate the currency by that amount in the desperate hope of upping commodity prices. Louder & louder grew the cry to remonetize silver. All that held the inflationists back was a lack of unanimity as to which plan to follow...
...that it would somehow up commodity prices. Texas' Marvin Jones, chairman of the Agriculture Committee whose measure it was, warded off attacks with this query: "If you don't favor this, what form of farm relief do you favor?"-and no good answers were forthcoming. Of the lack of enthusiasm behind H. R. 13,991 he cried: "Did you ever see any enthusiasm in a sick room? Did you ever watch a blood transfusion? There's no enthusiasm there. It's too serious. We must have a blood transfusion to save the farm situation...
...will distress cinemaddicts who cherish the illusion that under Tsar Hays the cinema is committed to upholding Occidental theories of right and wrong. Aside from being morally subversive and eloquently antiChristian, it is not an unusual, although it is an intelligent, production. It suffers from lethargic pace, a lack of action elsewhere than in highly atmospheric battle-scenes. Barbara Stanwyck is satisfactory as Megan Davis but the most noteworthy female member of the cast is Toshia Mori, a sloe-eyed Japanese girl whom Director Frank Capra discovered in a Los Angeles curio shop, hired for the part...
Unranked, for "lack of sufficient data": Moody...