Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the Lampoon back in the straight and narrow path, not the thin and feeble sheet of seventeen years ago (and earlier) but a good, honest wad of text pages and advertisements, its subscribers have become its friends and all others ought to become subscribers without delay. Harvard deserves a first rate magazine, and this...
During March a rumble of warning came when seven banks suspended payments. The first thunder clap (TIME, April 18), was the announcement by Japan's richest woman, Mme. Yone Suzuki that her enormous importing and exporting firm would delay payments on its $250,000,000 obligations. Forthwith came another thunderbolt-suspension by the great Bank of Taiwan, chief creditor of Suzuki...
...appeal which was first arranged for March 21, has already been put off twice because of the trial of McLaughlin, who was condemned two weeks ago as one of the carbarn bandits. Although the court is now ready to take up the "riot" case, a further delay is occasioned by the Harvard recess which will absent most of the witnesses from Cambridge...
...atrocity altogether reprehensible and comparatively recent (1221 A. D.). Strolling about with a native guide one hears said of whatever seems to be in disrepair that "it was all right until Jenghiz Khan came"-an explanation provocative of hilarity when offered by native children to account for the delay or nonarrival of trains at Samarkand from the Trans-Caspian or Moscow-Kirghiz lines...
...Haugen bill, 47 to 39. Party lines were torn to shreds; the vote was almost purely sectional-the West and South against the East. The House, last week, threw aside its own farm relief bill, adopted the McNary-Haugen bill exactly as it came from the Senate. Thus, the delay of a conference was obliterated. The farm bloc, with grey-haired Representative Haugen at the helm, bowled over the regular Republican organization with steamroller tactics that recalled the days of "Uncle Joe" Cannon. The Cabinet. Having been informed that both houses of Congress had passed the McNary-Haugen bill, President...