Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Against such short-range points was a long-range principle. What the hands-off policy does do is place the negotiating emphasis where it belongs: at the collective-bargaining table. It removes the incentive for either labor or management to delay settlement in hope of winning points through the White House. Members of the National Mediation Board were delighted. Said one: "We are all convinced that the Railway Labor Act will function if it is left alone. The L. & N. strike proves that...
When it came time for the vote on final passage of the parity bill, Republican Leader Joe Martin demanded a roll call. The vote was close; at one point it appeared that the bill had been defeated. After the roll call, there was a long delay, while Democrats switched their votes, some from nay to aye, some from nay to present. Martin, annoyed at the procedure, demanded: "W'hat's the stalling for?" Speaker Rayburn gently replied that there had been no unnecessary delay. Then he carefully studied the Democratic side to make certain he had no more...
Wednesday. President Eisenhower gave the vaccine top billing at his press conference, calling it "a very emotional subject." First, the President pointed out, more exacting tests than those currently used could be devised, but they might delay vaccination programs. Second (and here Ike showed that he had been briefed in a highly technical field), scientists have suspected "a reaction or a development that you might call the provocative effect of this vaccine. You or I, or a little child . . . might have latent polio germs in his system . . . Now the actual puncture of the skin . . . might cause some trouble." This...
...encouraging announcement that the Salk vaccine will be released again tomorrow is shadowed by the Health Department's continuing refusal to take steps toward a sensible nationally-controlled distribution of the vaccine. Despite all the confusion and delay of the past two weeks, inoculations will be resumed under the same "voluntary" system which has patently proven to be no system...
...long "adjustment period" which Southern politicians advocate--a delay long enough to last them through present and future terms of office--would provide even more time for gerrymandering, cultivation of bigotry, and ridicule of the Supreme Court. During this extra time very few School Committees would take even a mincing step toward the integration goals the Court constructs...