Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Democratic successor not only revealed the mental abyss separating the two men but also stirred Washington and Albany to hot political resentment. The Hoover camp felt that Governor Roosevelt was afraid to join forces with the President because he did not want to exhibit publicly his own lack of a debt plan. "I-told-you-so" Republicans chortled about their pre-election predictions that President Hoover's defeat would produce just such a hiatus in economic recovery...
...what had been agreed, the General was not specific. Close listeners to his program speech detected a lack of program. Jokingly he said that he was "perfectly willing to equip our army with knives and paper shields, provided only our neighbors do the same." Seriously he promised no further tax-upping, no further Federal wage-cutting, greater freedom of the press and other pleasant things. "Joyous co-operation on the part of all classes," he declared, would enable him to keep these promises and he warned the Communists not to misbehave...
...Brothers Warner-Harry, Albert & Jack-from control of Warner Brothers Pictures Inc. at a five-day annual meeting at Wilmington, Del. While some 30 clerks counted proxies, the 700 stockholders who attended had to be moved to a nearby Warner theatre (operated but two days a week for lack of patronage) where they laughed loudly every time President Harry Warner tried to speak...
...these days when the teaching profession is becoming more and more over crowded, and when lack of positions is becoming increasingly serious, the record of the Harvard Graduate School of Education in placing its graduates is distinctly surprising. The fact that there were 260 positions waiting for the 133 graduates seems almost paradoxical in the fact of present conditions...
...Princeton no one is denied admission for lack of money. The Personnel Department, having filled all the positions at its command with those applicants best qualified, communicates with the remaining applicants on its lists and advises them that they would be unwise to register in the University unless their financial position improves sufficiently to carry the expenses they will inevitably contract. There is nothing, however, to prevent these individuals from ignoring the advice of the Department and entering the Freshman Class in the vague hope that money will turn up somewhere...