Word: lacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...humiliating to say that there must be a showing as to their ability or inability of those seeking Federal funds as to what they themselves can do; but have we come to that state of mind in legislating that we want to encourage or even countenance indifference, lack of diligence, total lack of thrift and energy? Have we come to the point where we wish to say, "The less you do or attempt to do, the more we will do?" When the Relief bill went to Congress a group of stanch Democratic Senators, of whom Senator Robinson was one, went...
...knowing that every day's delay would help Santander rally its defenses. Cracked soon it had to be if Spain is to be conquered and Madrid captured this summer. Leftist Madrid has talked of taking a general offensive ever since the Negrin Government came into power in Valencia. Lack of material and properly trained men has always been the Leftists' greatest handicap. But time is on the side of the Loyalists, Generalissimo Franco knows, and if he wins his war he must win it soon...
...other's bases at each end. The agreement gives Germany rights at Dakar, Senegal, for South Atlantic flights, and at Hanoi. French Indo-China, for Far Eastern flying. France won the right to use Germany's catapult ships in the Atlantic. Co-operation was necessary because France lacks planes, Germany lacks capital, and both lack rights to land in the Azores, Bermuda, Canada...
...Roper's Business Advisory Council gave them a luncheon. Secretary of State Cordell Hull made a speech. At the Burning Tree, Metropolitan and Chevy Chase clubs they played golf earnestly and remarkably well. Convinced by members of the State Department that Franklin Roosevelt minded not at all their lack of formal morning clothes, they spent a smiling half hour with the President...
...debt to Macy's but some of Macy's customers are in debt to a Morris Plan Bank with a representative right in the store. A competitive measure, the Morris Plan tie-up is not advertised by Macy's, but if a customer hesitates for lack of ready cash, he is likely to be steered to the Morris Plan "fellow on the ninth floor...