Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Delay & Deal. Like Senator Malone, most politicians in Indiana feel all right about this process. But if they are at odds with the state administration, they feel just terrible about who is getting the benefit. When Jenner & Co. saw that more toll roads projected for the future would give the Craig organization a potent long-range weapon, they decided to set up some roadblocks...
...moment the Jenner bill fell into the hopper, the Craig forces' strategy was clear: delay. Enough delay might produce, one of two desirable results: 1) suffocate the bill, or 2) hold it in the legislature so long that Craig could veto it after the legislators had reached their 61-day constitutional deadline, and had gone home...
...charge of delay for the Craig forces was a round, rollicking state senator named Roy Conrad of Monticello, who raises purebred Aberdeen Angus cattle. An expert in state political matters, Conrad put the slowdown on everywhere. He even changed his personal gait. From his seat near the back of the senate chamber to the microphone at the front, Conrad began to move at the pace of a tired Angus on a summer evening. Conrad was not tired; he had merely made a deal with Craig to block the Jennerite bill...
...Democrats' tax-slashing measure. Multiplied by seventy million taxpayers, the twenty dollar cut puts a $1.4 billion inflationary bulge in the economy, although the nation has already recovered from last year's deflation. Democrats attached the twenty-dollar gift as a rider on an an Administration sponsored bill to delay scheduled excise and corporation tax cuts. If the combined bill passes the Senate, the President will have no alternative but to authorizing inflation, for whether he signs or vetoes the bill, the Treasure tax receipts will...
...last month when several cager Representatives introduced bills calling for a National Foreign Service Academy, a plan which the State Department has opposed in the past. Since its officials have freely admitted the urgent need for a more efficient recruitment program for the Service, the Department should end its delay and seek quick Congressional approval, either for the Wriston scholarship proposal or for a modified plan embodying the same general principles...