Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Late in the week, at 4:30 a. m. Mr. Neil McLean, Clydeside Laborite fire-eater, attempted to delay debate in the Commons by in- terjecting a motion calling for a secret session of the House-the first since the War period. Adroit, the Tories refused to heckle over the point, passed the motion in a flash, effectively cut Mr. McLean off from the public audience which he delights to entertain...
...students of political science. It has been shown, for instance, that we require our Congressmen to work four years for two years' pay, which may possibly help to explain the uniformly low calibre of the men who are willing to accept our terms. And there is always, besides, a delay of thirteen months in the operation of a popular referendum...
...some credit both for the policy followed and for what has been accomplished under it, and to make it clear that my recommendation to the Corporation several years ago "that a thorough study of the seating problem be authorized forthwith" did not con- template for a moment, even a delay in the provision of additional facilities for general athletics. On the contrary, though this is no reason for more seats, the addition of even 10,000 to the present seating capacity of the Stadium would as a natural result increase our gross income above the guarantees by something like...
Last week the deliberations of the Tacna-Arica Plebiscitary Commission,* chairmaned by General John J. Pershing, reached an acute stage of discord when the Chilean representative, Agustin Edwards, withdrew from the Commission, protesting that there had been needless delay in promulgating the terms of the plebiscite, and that after four months of marking time no date for it had actually been...
...belated rate-advance of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco left only the New York Bank with a 3½% rate. Last week all the eleven other Banks maintained their rates at 4%. The delay in advancing the New York rate has doubtless been due to the effect which such a step might have in disturbing sterling exchange rates and perhaps increasing British gold shipments...