Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chamber of Deputies proposed to give the lesser functionaries of the Civil Service a bonus of 500 francs ($25.00) as compensation for a delay in revising their salaries. The Senate objected. The Chamber insisted. The Senate was adamant. The Chamber sat pat. The Senate weakened, finally passed the necessary bill by a majority of twelve votes...
...Government regrets the delay which has unexpectedly occurred, and sincerely hopes that, with the assurances of friendly assistance now given by the Governments concerned, these measures can soon be put into execution, in accordance with the intentions of the agreements at the Washington Conference...
...sure, the House did not take the matter seriously; and several members condemned the proposition; but words once uttered go to the echo and come back. The Secretary was perturbed, beneath his calm, at the thought of that echo in Japan. He determined on a friendly action without delay. But what...
...electric power developed for the manufacture of fertilizer, containing not less than 40,000 tons a year of pure nitrogen, to be sold at a profit of not over 8%, with farmer control to keep down the cost of distribution. This is coupled with opposition, on account of the delay involved, to the appointment of a commission to solve the Shoals problem...
...Protocol Delay. Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain, chief British delegate, stated that his Government, which has just come into office, had not yet had time to consider the protocol or to confer with the Dominions over what was to be their common attitude toward it. He accordingly asked for an adjournment, which was to be an adjournment and nothing more than an adjournment?the Geneva protocol was not to be considered dead. The delay requested was unanimously voted by the Council. The whole protocol question (TIME, Oct. 13) was thereby shelved until the March meeting of the Council...