Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President had sent to the Senate the Kellogg-Briand multilateral treaty for the renunciation of war. He accompanied it with a dignified exhortation: "The fact that I approve of the treaty is well known," he stated. "I hope that it may come into force with the least possible delay and I should be pleased if the Senate should take such action during the present session as to enable the U. S. to ratify the treaty before the expiration of my term of office." Equally well known is the fact that Missouri's cigar-gnawing Senator Reed disapproves...
...session, Senator Johnson (Calif.), sponsor, substituted the Boulder Dam bill passed by the House last session for his own much-filibustered measure, then re-substituted his own text after the House's enacting clause. Otherwise the bill, if passed by the Senate, would be new legislation, subject to delay when it returns to the House...
...submitted, before 7 o'clock on Thursday, to S. L. Batchelder '31 at 52 Mt. Auburn Street. All voting will be done by ballots which are to be mailed to members of the Sophomore class at the beginning of next week. These ballots must be checked and returned without delay. A closing date for returning them will be announced as soon as possible...
...doing had demanded from his Attorney General immediate delivery of the opinion he had requested 224 days before. If it was obvious that the World and Senator Walsh had chosen a politically important moment to force the issue, it seemed equally obvious that Attorney General Sargent had meant to delay his unfortunate news until after Election...
...taking of wine with a meal increases the desire for food and improves the nutrition. The wine itself requires no further digestion and is almost the only food product which will be absorbed from the stomach itself without further preparation or delay in its reaching the tissues. Alcohol is not a direct stimulant but acts directly as an antidote to the chronic poisoning of the heart from overindulgence in coffee and tobacco...