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Word: delay (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Attempts to "force the retreat of justice before power," it warned, "will only delay and complicate" but never prevent the solution of world problems...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 2/17/1939 | See Source »

...Court as an executive and legislative body, and tracing the history of the act in the hands of the Supreme Court, Latham took up two of the proposed amendments which will come before the present Congress. The first transferring judicial power to the District Courts, he held would only delay action, whereas the second replacing the present impartial Labor Court with one representing different factions would swing the balance of power too far in favor of the employer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LATHAM FAVORS LABOR ACT, HITS AMENDMENTS | 2/16/1939 | See Source »

...District of Columbia Court of Appeals ruled she had not. To crusty Justice McReynolds last week fell the job of reversing that decision and setting Messrs. Pearson and Allen on their own tack. Read he: "While no action can be maintained before copies are actually deposited, mere delay will not destroy the right to sue. . . . The cause will be remanded to the District Court [for the setting of damages]." Four of the original Nine Old Men concurred. Dissenters were Justices Black and Reed, the New Deal appointees, and Roberts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Old Men's Turn | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...coach also has some very definite ideas on how to make the games next spring more interesting for the spectator. In the first place, the games will be speeded up with less delay by catchers hitching and unhitching their pads; there will be shorter warm-ups by pitchers; and less stalling by umpires. He repeated, "it's going to be a hustling team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Baseball Coach Floyd Stahl Expects a Better, Hustling Nine | 2/7/1939 | See Source »

...economy advocates, led by Sen. Alva B. Adams, D., Colo., had hoped to delay the vote until their numbers are bolstered by several absentees who favor the House-approved $725,000,000 relief bill and would give them the margin for victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire | 1/27/1939 | See Source »

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