Word: delay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newly formed, 120-member Citizens Emergency Committee for Universal Military Training,* Owen J. Roberts, former Supreme Court justice, added his voice. World affairs are approaching a crisis, he told the House Armed Services Committee. U.S. military weakness is accelerating its approach. Said Roberts: "Every month's delay is a terribly dangerous thing...
President Truman: "[The people of the U.S.] will not be discouraged by temporary setback or delay...
...often taken labor's part in debate and committee room: "[The veto message] is the worst possible interpretation of the provisions of the bill, based on the assumption of the worst possible administration of the act." While the bill's opponents in the Senate filibustered desperately to delay the vote (see The Congress), Senator Robert Taft went on the air half an hour after Harry Truman finished his broadcast and took up Harry Truman's speech...
After 20 months of chicanery, double-dealing and delay in granting their thrice-promised independence, Koreans surely have every right to expect better of us than this. Korea is a rich country, forced by power politics into a beggar's role. The division of its country, giving the industrial half to Russia and the agricultural half to the U.S., is impoverishing it. Our economic strangulation of south Korea is creating lasting bitterness. Democracy has not failed in Korea, for we have never given it any chance to operate there...
...Brooklyn exporter named James Boyle got so mad at the delay, said Kerschbaumer, that he burst in with two "very apparently gangster types" with guns, demanded 50,000 tons of steel "or else." Durham, a husky exMarine, happened to walk in just then and "removed them of their guns...