Word: delay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Events are born as journalism, die as history. Journalist Mark Sullivan's Our Times is an attempt to delay the process, or at least to arrange the corpse's limbs decently before rigor mortis sets in. Journalist Sullivan knew the dear departed well, arranges the lights and shadows with a friendly and discriminating hand. This third volume of his big work (there will be two more) covers the years...
Racing back into the house, Statesman Stimson snatched up the telephone, tried to get the police. The operator annoyed him with many questions. Ten minutes later three carloads of police arrived, searched "Woodley's" grounds, departed without finding any burglar. Irritated at the police's delay, Secretary Stimson remarked: "If it had been a fire, I'd have been burned up before they got here. . . . Cricket is our hero today...
Arizona's suit, on a par in importance with the Great Lakes diversion controversy (TIME, Nov. 22, 1926, et seq.), did not cause the U. S. to delay its construction plans. Declared President Hoover: "The letting of contracts . . . will proceed as rapidly as possible. The determination of the points of law raised by Arizona will be expedited. ... In the meantime I am in hopes that the States may get together and compose their differences...
...Aldred of Gillette: ". . . Rumors have been circulated, mainly in stockmarket circles, in regard to the Gillette Co. . . . Based upon the advice of our attorneys we are pleased to assure you that the patent situation ... is being developed in a usual and orderly manner and that we anticipate no delay or difficulty." By then, Gillette was $97½, AutoStrop...
...clean bill of health. As the CRIMSON pointed out continually last year, the University's policy has been at best a miserly, penny-pinching, and stupid one throughout. Out of it all, though, came the promise to investigate the whole employment situation thoroughly. Why has there been so much delay? If there is good and adequate reason why hasn't the public been kept informed of developments along these lines; and, if, as Lamont's letter states, the investigation is not to include the scrubwomen case...