Word: delay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contemplating this year's races the Cleveland committee must have reflected that a meet in any city would surely be overshadowed by the air displays to be held at Chicago's World Fair. Therefore it behooved Cleveland to transfer its $12,500 obligation without delay...
...Joseph in 1931 purchased an estate in Kent (first house he ever owned) in order to play the part better and he is supposed to have postponed his daughter's wedding so that he might give her away as Lord Duveen. But something always happened. Theories for the delay were found in the fact that Sir Joseph has been sued three times for $500,000 for disparaging the paintings of other dealers (to settle the last one out of court cost him $100,000), and that the U. S. Treasury accused Duveen Bros, of mulcting the Government...
President-elect Roosevelt: There remains before March only the possibility of exploratory work and preliminary surveys. ... I am glad to avoid the loss of precious time through delay in starting these preliminaries. . . . However for me to accept any joint responsibility in the work of exploration might well be construed by other nations as a commitment -moral, even though not legal-as to policies and courses of action. . . . The designation of a man or men of such eminence as your telegram suggests would not imply mere fact-findings; it would suggest the presumption that such representatives were empowered to exchange views...
...Senate the House beer bill was referred to the Judiciary Committee for a look at its constitutionality, after which it would go to the Finance Committee to have its revenue raising features examined. Loudly fearful that such procedure would cause delay, Connecticut's Republican Bingham, a "lame duck" who would like to see his name tagged to Wet legislation, attempted to execute a slick trick by moving immediate consideration of a 3.2% beer bill of his own. His motion was defeated 48-10-23 after Democrats hotly accused him of seeking "partisan advantage' But this vote was only...
...Paul-Boncour, the sonorous, theatrical War Minister of France and Sir John Simon, icy, meticulous British Foreign Secretary. Neither of these special pleaders so much as mentioned the issues-whether Japan acted in self defense ; whether she broke treaties; whether League states should recognize Manchukuo. Instead both pressed for delay and Sir John Simon devoted most of his speech to stressing "the need of being practical" and rebuking the Chinese Government for not having suppressed Communism in its central provinces-1,000 mi. from Manchukuo, the land under discussion...