Word: deferred
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many a leader had hoped to defer dismission until later during the two-week convention. Back in their hotels, the delegates talked excitedly. Alert newshawks heard them describe the opening sermons as "poor taste," "party politics," and "Jesuitical cunning." Some felt that Bishop Furse's reference to companionate marriage was "a discourteous slap against Judge Lindsey in his home town...
...unfortunate statement," bitterly remarked New York City's Department of Hospitals. New York hospitals and clinics have been overcrowded with 25% more patients than normal during full employment times. The staffs hear of people who "cannot afford to be sick," who defer treatment, operations. For the municipal hospitals alone the budget requires $25,326,000, an enforced increase over last year of $5,800,000. Surgeon-General Cummings' report, complained the New Yorkers, "excludes epidemics and, covering only 13 unmentioned States, deals only in mortalities...
William Randolph Hearst, for whose publications and news service Sir Hubert has been reporting the submarine excursion, wirelessed him a plea: "I most urgently beg of you to return promptly to safety and to defer any further adventure until another and more favorable time, and with a better boat...
...onetime Japanese Ambassador to the U. S. Tsuneo Matsudaira * has remained childless, an object of Japanese sympathy and esteem. Without venturing a direct comment, the genealogical experts of the Imperial Household Ministry discreetly apprised the press last week that there is no precedent requiring brothers of the Emperor to defer to him in this respect. Public opinion, according to the experts, must not be allowed to crystallize upon an idea oppressive to the Emperor's brothers and contrary to the interests of the Dynasty. Prince Takamatsu, second brother of the Emperor, is still on his round-the- world honeymoon...
...committee of the Cabinet and approval by the President. . . . "The Congress will have presented to it numbers of projects, some of them under the guise of, rather than the reality of, their use of employment during the depression. . . . I can not emphasize too strongly the absolute necessity to defer any other plans for increase of Government expenditures...