Word: delay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Minn. Entraining at Manhattan, he rode as far as Rochester, N. Y., where, hearing the station called, he de-trained in a rush, asked through an interpreter to be directed to the Mayo Clinic, discovered he was in the wrong Rochester (there are 16 in the U. S.). Since delay might prove disastrous, Octogenarian Read chartered a plane to Baltimore, was shortly under the care of famed Urologist Hugh Hampton Young of the Brady Clinic, Johns Hopkins hospital...
After two years of talk, delay, and a series of bouts that eliminated such contenders as Johnny Risko (tough Cleveland baker boy), Jack Delaney (gay Canadian), Tommy Loughran (a light heavyweight champion grown fat) and Phil Scott (English sailor famed for claiming fouls), a match was arranged to decide the heavyweight championship of the world. Jack Sharkey, garrulous descendant of Lithuanian immigrants to Binghamton, N. Y., onetime U. S. sailor, climbed into a ring at the Yankee Stadium, Manhattan, wearing a U. S. flag over his shoulders. He was roundly booed, bit his glove in irritation. From the opposite corner...
...less determined was Senator Hiram Johnson, captain of the tiny army of Treaty opponents in the Senate, to delay matters to such a point that the London agreement would have to go over until next winter's session of Congress. Last week the Johnson brigade of twelve did not grow in size but it grew in obstructive influence...
...numerical size of the Johnson army than they were at the Senate's general apathy. Up to last week the President and Statesman Stimson had simply failed to get the Senate excited about the benefits of the treaty. Today the Hoover forces easily command a winning majority. Delay of six months might well produce deserters in an atmosphere of indifference...
Return of Moses. Senator Johnson's forces-for-delay last week received support from two new quarters. Senator George Higgins Moses of New Hampshire, potent president pro tempore of the Senate returned from a European jaunt to declare: "What I don't understand is all the rush in putting the treaty through the Senate. I haven't heard of any power that is going to build a great navy between now and December. The Senate is pretty jaded to tackle so important a subject...