Word: delay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Hoover twice last week summoned his best legislative friends to his White House breakfast table. There together they pondered the imponderable forces of politics that seemed to be working against the President. What concerned President Hoover was the Senate's protracted discussion of the Tariff, with its consequent delay to other important legislation. He spoke darkly of thousands of U. S. employes on public works who would have to be laid off unless Congress voted them money soon, then warned Congress not to spend more money than the budget authorized...
...been painstakingly revising downward industrial rates set by the House and by the Senate Finance Committee.* Last week the Tariff got back into headlines, not because of any startling new developments, but because of the lack of them. A great juggling match of political blame-fixing for the delay ensued. Once more the position of President Hoover, who last November "hoped" the Senate would pass the bill in a fortnight became a major conundrum...
Losings. The union estimated that the strike had cost it $225,000. Dress manufacturers guessed that the nine-day delay in the Spring trade would cost the industry...
...place, written by persons unknown, furtively distributed throughout Rome. Its name : Loud Speaker. Its object : to attack Dictator Benito Mussolini with humor, malice, intimate information, startling lies, as he has seldom before been attacked. Fascist officials have sharp orders to apprehend and silence Loud Speaker's perpetrators without delay or mercy, for ridicule is the one weapon no dictatorship can long withstand. Roman gossips, well aware of the breach over edu cation and other matters between Il Dnce and Pius XI, have slyly but of course quite erroneously suggested that Loud Speaker emanates from the same sanctified publishing plant...
...planned a frigid flight from Mt. Clemens, Mich., to Spokane, Wash., and back. The planes, 18 pursuit and four transports (one carrying short wave radio apparatus), equipped with skis and other pertinent paraphernalia for operation under extreme cold and bad weather, were ready to fly last week. A first delay came when the planes were plated with ice after an all night storm. Then one of the transport planes crunched through the ice on Lake St. Clair in five feet of water, had to be hauled ashore and dried off. Eighteen flyers completed the first lap of their journey, landing...