Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge last week. The end of the Congressional session was approaching,* and with it the last-moment votes for all manner of Federal outlay. Senator Smoot was going slowly with the Revenue Act and its $200,000,000 or so reduction of taxes. Some said his motive was to delay the Senate's vote on the Boulder Dam bill. But in the light of an announcement by Representative Snell of New York, trusted Administration man, it looked as though President Coolidge's ever-quick solicitude for the financial condition of the Government might have transcended the advisory...
...record before her arrival. When she landed, she received different news. Lady Sophie had left Cairo in a huff and gone to London, not by plane, but by boat and express train. Lady Mary smiled with the pride of a perilous victory. Then, after 12 days' delay so that she might keep up the pretense that her London to South Africa jaunt had been undertaken for reasons of business rather than aeronautical rivalry, she started back from Cape Town to London-by plane...
...verdict of "unfit" on Admiral Brumby. Given an opportunity to explain himself, Admiral Brumby redescribed his conduct and Secretary Wilbur found it entirely "commendable." In the main, Admiral Brumby seemed to have conferred intelligently with his more technically expert subordinates and ordered what all agreed was best, including the delay in attaching airlines to the wreck's "ears." Moreover, said Secretary Wilbur, the Brumby record of 31 years in the Navy was so splendid as to overcome whatever "errors or oversight or failures" could be justly charged against him on his testimony...
...course and to break down the feeling of close personal contact on which all successful teaching must rest. In addition, by thus twitting him in public on a matter in which he knows himself somewhat weak, you have done your best toward fortifying any tendency which might delay his progress in learning to teach...
...late hour last night the Committee in charge of Freshman Affairs announced that the closeness of the vote in the recent Freshman election will delay the publication of the result until tomorrow...