Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Alvan Tufts Fuller, 80, onetime (1925-29) Republican governor of Massachusetts, who backed up the state judiciary, decided not to delay the electrocution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti beyond Aug. 23, 1927; in Boston. A wealthy auto dealer (Packard) and onetime (1917-21) U.S. Congressman, Fuller was beset by pressure from near and far to intervene in behalf of the condemned men. After he appointed a committee headed by Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell, which reviewed all testimony and supported the jury's decision that Sacco and Vanzetti were guilty of murder, the New York Times editorialized...
Despite efforts of federal and state mediators, negotiations with the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, AFL-CIO, broke down Friday. Federal mediator John J. Sullivan has indicated that he will be available today if the union and management wish to delay the walkout...
Three Week Delay...
...resistance is our only bargaining power. The F.L.N. will not agree to a cease-fire before a political settlement. It would only give France a chance to delay...
...University appears to have decided that "cooperation" with the City on such issues as student parking may help to resolve such largely political struggles as the recent Quincy House permit delay. But it is unfortunate that it has also decided to avert possible future troubles by unnecessarily restricting student parking...