Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...resignation, that " Fiume had hoped the Genoa Conference would arrange a settlement of the situation under which Flume's desire to be allowed to exist as an Italian city would be recognized." He continued that Fiumian aspirations had been thwarted by the Santa Margherita Convention and that the long delay in settling the status of Fiume and the consequent interference with political parties and city officials had combined to make his position intolerable...
...considerable interest in both sugar and railroads, but his sugar interests are not such as to be injured by the bill. The State Department meanwhile considered the question of whether the bill can legally be regarded as confiscatory and asked President Zayas of Cuba to have the Cuban Senate delay action. At Senor Zayas' request the Senate tabled the bill until hearings could be held...
Georges Clemenceau: "The film version of my novel, Les Plus Forts, passed after long delay by the national censor, was condemned by the court at La Seyne-sur-Var as 'dangerous to public order and morality and tranquillity...
Eleanora Duse, Italian actress: "Asked what actress I had seen in London this year that particularly interested me, I answered in a way that will please Americans. Without delay, I said: 'Pauline Lord.' She was in Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie...
...Democrats hooted because women have had equal representation on their National Committee since 1920. The Democratic National Committee was especially delighted by the discovery of the statement in the Press-Herald of Portland, Me.: " No doubt the Democratic National Committee will also adopt this idea without very much delay." At that remark the Democratic National Committee " almost despaired." It also took occasion to point out that the dissatisfaction among Republican women which caused the new arrangement in their favor, was partly brought about by knowledge of the similar gallantry shown to Democratic women three years earlier...