Word: neglections
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...Democratic party have not been content merely to denounce this menace. We have been realistic enough to face it. We have been intelligent enough to do something about it. . . . In the spring of 1933 we faced a crisis which was the ugly fruit of twelve years of neglect, neglect of the causes of economic and social unrest. It was a crisis made to order for all those who would overthrow our form of government...
...much more than an ingenious tract, it plainly reveals the source of Sinclair's international reputation. With a gift for simplifying complex political questions, he writes in a field that interests politically-conscious Europeans, and one which few U. S. novelists have touched, Bitterly resenting the neglect of his achievements by serious U. S. critics, Upton Sinclair usually counters by mentioning the wide circulation of his books abroad. The Jungle is the most widely-read U. S. novel since Uncle Tom's Cabin. Oil has been translated into 30 languages, including Esperanto. A bibliography published in 1930 listed...
...once the Grand Jury swung into action on this gross case of electoral misbehavior. In a fortnight 32 minor Election Board officials were under indictment for fraud, wilful neglect of duty. Censured but not indicted were the four members of the Bi-Partisan Election Board, composed of two Democrats and two Republicans picked by Democratic Governor Guy Brasfield Park. Last week, with the Post-Dispatch still doling out its apparently inexhaustible store of election fraud evidence, Governor Park felt it would be unwise to withhold official action longer, called in Jefferson City correspondents, announced he had removed his St. Louis...
Worry is a dissociation and deflection of attention, a confusion of mental focus by anxious concern for incidentals and neglect of the essential element." It is also "deliberation turned toxic." Most Oriental languages have no word for such a typically modern state of mind. Although "forethought is essential to intelligent living, it is only when apprehension is ruled by nervous anxiety . . . that worry injures us." Brooding, it follows, is "meditation made sick by fear." Confronted by situations that we do not know how to face, or do not want to face, our concepts of the kind of action possible...
...nature of a celebration of Amalgamated's new independence. Moreover, it was quite in accord with old Mormon custom. The other Mormon sugar company, Utah-Idaho, has for its president Heber Jeddy Grant, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of _Latter Day Saints, who does not neglect his spiritual duties for sugar. It has been managed for many years by Vice President Willard T. Cannon. Similarly Henry Arthur Benning, vice president & general manager, runs Amalgamated, although its President Anthony W. Ivins was long another Mormon Church official. Inasmuch as Mr. Ivins died two years ago and Amalgamated...