Word: delay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...life. The capitalist system has broken down even in those countries where its authority was thought to be most secure. . . . We must plan our civilization or perish. The Labor Party recognizes that the present situation calls for bold and rapid action. The decay of the capitalist civilization brooks no delay...
...author quotes numerous secret diplomatic dispatches from Tokio to Washington during the Washington Conference, which were decoded and translated, showing that a policy of delay on the part of the British and Americans was sure to force the Japanese to retreat, as they did, from their demand for a ten-to-seven ratio. From this one would conclude, that, with the Black Chamber closed, the United States went into the London Naval Conference and will go into any future conference at a disadvantage, unless foreign powers follow Secretary Stimpson's example, "Stud poker is not a very difficult game after...
...Conservative headquarters party workers gathered, talked of Oct. 28 as the "dead cert." election date. Opinion hardened that the hesitant P.M. must decide for an election soon. Suddenly to cap Scot MacDonald's woes came an ultimatum from Mahatma Gandhi. Impatient of delay by the Indian Round Table Conference, Mr. Gandhi said that a month of further delay because of a General Election would be intolerable, would make it necessary for him to return to India. King George, too. was said last week to be opposing an election, fearful perhaps of social upheaval...
With a practiced eye that knew what it was going to find (the Surgeon General reported the nation unusually healthy last winter-TIME, Dec. 15, 1930), the President scanned Dr. Cumming's data and with no delay consoled the nation thus: "In brief [the Gumming report] shows that the general mortality, the infant mortality, the sickness in the country was less in the winter of 1931 than the winters of full employment in 1928 and 1929. The public health has apparently never been better than it has been over the past six months. It is a most creditable showing...
Author James Gould Cozzens undoubtedly had in mind the end of Lamport & Holt Line's Vestris which, commanded by a seaman whose brain had been replaced by a fearful vacillation which caused him to delay some six hours before sending out an SOS, dragged 110 people to death three years ago (TIME...