Word: delay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chosen at the beginning of next week for the debate against Fordham in New York City on Sunday, December 3. The subject of the debate, of which the Harvard team will uphold the negative, is Resolved, That the United States should build its navy to treaty strength without delay...
...great deal of the delay in putting to work money that has already been allotted has been on account of what is claimed to be unreasonably high wages." Administrator Ickes shot back at Labor. "I am reluctant to believe that a serious body like the A. F. of L., having any responsibility to the public, would adopt such a resolution .unless it had sent it to a committee to investigate the facts...
...facts. PWA announced, were these: Within about 90 days, the Administration had allotted $1,659,003,310, more than one-half of its appropriation. But so far only $68,294,884 had been withdrawn from the Treasury. "The delay," said Administrator workers, "where there is any, is in putting the money to work after it is allotted." One reason that mass re-employment was being retarded on Federal works was that part of the money so far allotted is earmarked for building dams and battleships. These projects require elaborate preliminary planning, but last week The Engineering News Record was confident...
...view of recent complications, however, it becomes increasingly evident that further delay in intervention will not be to the benefit of Cuba. Supported by an irresponsible soldiery, the student government of Grau San Martin seems incapable of maintaining itself. The Cuban citizen who has dodged bullets, seen his stores looted by drunken musketeers, and suffered from complete paralysis of commercial activity under the present regime will hardly welcome the opportunity of doing likewise under whatever transitory power may emceed it. It is conceivable that such a conservative, every day sort of Cuban might consider this "give Cuba another chance" attitude...
...come from union pressure in each business. And the difficulties which would face the imposition of more codes are too obvious to merit further discussion. General Johnson, then, ought to drop his vacillation, so foreign to his newspaper character, and give a definite decision on this matter without delay...