Word: delay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Labor government the difference between nine months and twelve seemed vital. Labor's long-heralded bill to nationalize the steel industry would not be ready for presentation to the House of Commons before next November. If the Lords could delay it only nine months, the bill could be law by the summer elections of 1950. Labor could then say to the electorate: "Look, we have done as we promised." But if the Lords could hold up steel for twelve months (or any other government measure on a similar timetable), Labor might not be able to complete its program before...
...Frank Buchman, then 43, set to work without delay to "change" man No. 2.* As yet no whole nation has followed suit. But last week, Buchmanites all over the world celebrated their founder's 70th birthday. Frank Buchman himself attended the biggest party of all, which filled Los Angeles' Hollywood Bowl with 10,000 of the "changed" and the curious...
...Thank You. When Marriner Eccles, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, was demoted, the President asked him to become vice chairman (TIME, Feb. 9). In four months the President never got around to making the actual appointment. Last week, considering the delay and "other developments," patient Mr. Eccles asked that the whole matter be dropped. He said he would continue as plain board member...
...went to 4,000 subscribers in the U.S., 7,000 in Britain and 9,000 elsewhere. But that was the only ordinary thing about Future. The editors had assembled their copy in London, had it set in Prague, and flown proofs to Britain for correction. After a three-week delay (while Communists nationalized the Prague plant), Future had gone to press in Czechoslovakia...
...earlier delay in the charter process came when the administration vetoed a 'Cliffe Student Government approved charter on the grounds that some people who had signed the petition for the charter did not actually intend to become members of the organization...