Word: delay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Restoration of the monarchy in Germany," charged M. Hymans, "is not merely a question of time. It is imminent. There is now delay only because of disagreement between the former Kaiser s sons and former Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria as to how restoration should take place...
...impossibility for these nations to pay in fall," Professor Roorbach continued, "without continuing or even deepening the present depression and long delaying recovery. One thing is probable, and that is that if the debts are not substantially reduced, or even cancelled, some of them, at least, will be repudiated, not because of any wilfull desire to cheat the United States, but by virtue of the inability of the debator nations to pay. The result of repudiation would create a world-wide feeling of suspicion and uncertainty, which would long delay the economic recovery of the nations...
...many it will appear unfortunate that the restrictions of an antiquated law prevent the immediate enforcement of the people's will. Ordinarily the delay is of no consequence; but so sweeping an indictment of an administration should not remain for four months officially unrecognized by the President. As Walter Lippman has suggested, cooperation in matters of policy between the defeated incumbent and the victor would be not merely a gracious acknowledgment but a necessary recognition of public opinion...
After a dash to Portland, Maine, for a campaign talk, the Democratic nominee backracked to Boston. There he made a full-length political speech on the dual theme of advocating immediate Unemployment relief and castigating President Hoover for delay and inaction. Said he: "What we need in Washington is less fact-finding and more-thinking." Stoutly declaring that he would not "reply in kind" to personalities indulged in by the President, Governor Roosevelt observed that in the heat of the campaign the President's "dignity died"; that the President "cannot get action from Congress," "seems unable to co-operate," "cannot...
...student strike which meant business and speedily accomplished it was the one at W. & J. during five days of March 1931. Calling Dr. Baker "autocratic" and "domineering," the students protested his strict rules for dress (such as forbidding corduroy trousers), his delay in building a new stadium, his dismissal of three professors, his regulations by which it seemed that athletes were made to work harder than plain students. A trustees' committee investigated the charges. Before it could report, Dr. Baker resigned his job (TIME, May 25, 1931). Ill health (a prostate operation in 1930) was partly responsible...