Word: delay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cabinet ceased optimistic predictions of an early return of prosperity. The President, after setting May for the end of the business slump, saw his forecasts go all awry. Even Secretary of Labor James John Davis, the most irrepressibly cheery prophet, has grown silent on the economic future. Democratic delay on the tariff bill was recurrently cited by Republicans as the reason for unsettled business. They prophesied a quick upturn as soon as that measure was out of the way. The new tariff became law June 17. But July, according fo figures given out by members of the Administration last week...
Unnecessary delay would mean the loss of other parts of Miss Nettleton. The Church Missionary Society in London cabled Consul Martin at Foochow to pay the ranson instanter...
Kentucky in last week's primary first used its new election law requiring a 24-hour delay before ballot boxes were unsealed, the court begun. Senator John Marshall Robsion was unopposed for the Republican Senatorial Nomination to succeed himself. Judge Marvel Mills Logan had no opposition for the Democratic Senatorial Nomination. In only six of the state's eleven Congressional districts was it necessary to hold primaries for House nominations...
...House immediately upon his retirement or death. President Coolidge's picture was in place before March 4, 1929. When Harding died in 1923, Congress promptly appropriated $2,500 for a White House portrait. A British artist, Edmund Hodgson Smart, submitted a picture he had painted from life. One delay followed another. The Fine Arts Commission rejected the Smart portrait. After more delays Artist Francis Luis Mora of Gaylordsville, Conn, was commissioned to do another portrait of the late President, using photographs to get the likeness. It was the Mora portrait (see cut) that, seven years late, was hung without...
...front cover) The London Naval Treaty lay motionless in docket during the first week of the special session of the Senate called to consider it. Gales of oratory blew but they were a preliminary storm designed to delay the Treaty's start towards ratification. Only two formal speeches on the Treaty itself, one for, one against, were made in the first five days of debate...