Word: deferring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prince of Peace. "I had hoped to be able to defer this talk until next week because, as we all know, this is Holy Week. In this decision I have been strengthened by the thought that by speaking tonight there may be greater peace of mind and that the hope of Easter may be more real at firesides everywhere, and that it is not inappropriate to encourage peace when so many of us are thinking of the Prince of Peace...
...office at once. He did so. John L. Lewis and Senator Joseph Guffey were reported to be set to test their political strength by forcing the immediate choice of Coal Commissioner Pleas (rhymes with fez) E. Greenlee of Indiana as chairman. This week the commission unanimously voted to defer selection of a permanent chairman until the President named Mr. Hosford's successor, elected Minority Commissioner Percy Tetlow, an Ohio coal miner, as temporary chairman. Meanwhile Franklin Roosevelt, already heckled by the TVA fuss, was moved to disillusioned comment. Asked a complex question about whether the U. S. would have...
...without deep roots, family or financial. They are young men, in good health, and the prospect of an unadventurous, indoors, office life is unappetizing. And they are at that juncture in life where their most important and difficult decision must be made, namely what career to pursue. Anything to defer the necessity of making this decision is not wholly unwelcome. All this was true...
...Royal Highness arrived at this decision with great reluctance and after much deliberation, but he feels that owing to the grave misconceptions which have arisen, and the misstatements which have appeared regarding the motives and purpose of his industrial tour there is no alternative but to defer it for the present...
Decision was reached to defer to next year final action on a report aimed at House entrance policies, prepared by Francis Keppel...