Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Absentees. The continued session of Congress and a general lack of interest kept many a familiar G. O. Politician away from Chicago. Senators Borah. Watson and Smoot, prime figures at Kansas City in 1928, were absent. Andrew William Mellon was at his London post. Claudius Huston who led the Hoover "Boy Scouts" four years ago> could not be found around the Stadium. Allan Hoover, a spectator at his father's first nomination, missed his renomination...
...pinch with political consequences, they yield. Between the two it is a toss up. . . The nomination of Roosevelt is possible but not certain. Between Roosevelt and the White House there now stands a man endowed in the very highest degree with those qualities which both Hoover and Roosevelt lack and which the country so sorely needs...
...newspapers began complaining bitterly that Don Carlos Davila had taken no step against "Cosach," the $375,000,000 Chilean nitrate monopoly created by Manhattan's Guggenheims. Because Don Carlos when Ambassador had assisted in the negotiations creating "Cosach" and had pooh-poohed Chilean fears of "Yankee Imperialism," his lack of ruthlessness toward "Cosach" began to seem suspicious to some Chileans. Was the Stalinism of Don Carlos genuine, they wondered, or was he dragging a Red herring through the streets of Santiago, prating of "progressive Socialism" in order to head off a real Socialist revolt...
When Dr. Hoffman deplores the lack of an anti-suicide agency in the U. S., he ignores (because he thinks it "poorly equipped") the National Save-a-Life League, founded 1907 by Dr. Harry Marsh Warren (TIME, Dec. 7). Dr. Warren and his aides let soul-laden people (2,240 last year, 1,355 so far this year) talk themselves out. Clients include "businessmen, doctors, lawyers, judges, ministers, college students, unfortunate girls, wealthy men and women, actors, editors, bankers, executives of large concerns, society women and club...
...were numerous: 1) The Russians would make no agreement for more than three years, the defensive Englishmen and Americans sought a ten-year pact. 2) The Russians declined to limit exports to the 1931 level, refused to give up their distributing facilities in England, Germany, Spain. 3) There was lack of unanimity between the U. S. and British groups, lack of agreement between members of the U. S. group...