Word: lacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...concluding his series of lectures on Anglo-American diplomatic relations since the Civil War, the former professor of History here told the New Lecture Hall audience that "the two nations lack a common fold for much of their world policy." Because of the growth of European air power England's home security, he contended, has been destroyed, he contended, and she is more than ever a worldly power." On the other hand, America has become increasingly unwilling to involve herself in Europe...
...shortcomings of Men With Wings are not due to Director William Augustus ("Wild Bill") Wellman's lack of qualifications for his job. A Lafayette Flying Corps pilot during the War, he launched aviation as a major cinema subject with Wings in 1927, thereafter rated as one of the industry's top specialists in aviation epics. More lately his forte has been screwball comedies (Nothing Sacred). To Wellman these apparently dissimilar types seem closely connected. The extraordinary conduct of Pat Falconer in Men With Wings illustrates his belief that Wartime fliers experienced such intense emotional turmoil that none...
...Wheelock's conception of Old Brooklynite Whitman stirred up local talk of monumentalizing the poet. In Manhattan, meanwhile. Justin Sturm, famed ex-Yale end ('21). ex-novelist. Westport, Conn.'s most popular sculptor, had an exhibition at the Karl Freund Galleries in which a wonderful lack of subconscious or other depth (see col. 2) appeared in several homey, well-finished studies...
...reason for the move was given as because "in cases of accidents it is sometimes impossible to secure satisfaction because of the lack of compulsory insurance, absence of proper records showing ownership...
Colonel Ernest O. Thompson, chairman of the commission which prorates Texas oil production, last week went to Hyde Park to tell Franklin Roosevelt how confused the industry is: though crude oil production is adequately controlled by the Interstate Oil Compact, lack of control over refining has upset crude prices (TIME, Oct. 24). Saying he was against Government control, Mr. Roosevelt suggested extending the compact to refiners, offered to ask Congress to approve such an extension. As Colonel Thompson took this thought back to the mid-continent oil fields, the industry bitterly noted that the previous day the Anti-Monopoly Committee...