Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Martin Madden, put the Chicago project into the Rivers and Harbors Appropriations Act of the 69th Congress. It called for only $3,500,000 but if passed it would establish the principle of diversion. But there the provision stuck, a contributing factor to the whole bill's long delay. Only last week was it pried loose, and then by a former enemy, Senator Willis of Ohio. Coached by sage Representative Theodore Burton of Ohio, Senator Willis proposed an amendment, "That nothing in this act shall be construed as authorizing any diversion of water from Lake Michigan." This amendment...
Finally, a vote was taken on the appropriation. It passed 140 to 12, illustrating that verbosity means practically nothing except delay to the legislative machinery of the House. One item, however, of $500,000 for "under cover work" without record of expenditure was crossed...
Last week in Joliet the jury announced its verdict . . . and soon six forms will dangle on the gallows unless they are saved by further legal delay or by Gov. Len Small, crook-pardoner...
...There was then delay, during which the whole affair slumbered, only to be brought into the limelight again by the Senate Investigating Committee. A civil case was first tried, deciding that the lease of the Elk, Hills Reservation should be cancelled due to fraud. The case was taken to the Circuit Court of Appeals, which reversed the decision, and the matter is now appendine in the Supreme Court. Later the courts refused to cancel the Teapot Dome lease...
December 14 The Emergence of Delay and the Mystic Experience...