Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fortnight ago, the House passed a bill which affects the ears of more people than any other act of the present session of Congress. Last week the Senate twice refused to delay this bill by sending it back to conference. Passage loomed. "An Act," it is entitled, "for the regulation of radio communications...
...flexible diamond-studded bandeaux, instead of the old fashioned tiaras. Even Edward of Wales stood decorous in his place at the right of the throne. A moment earlier he had tripped over his own sword and almost sprawled. The picture seemed sufficiently magnificent, yet His Majesty sat waiting. The delay lengthened, grew in a few seconds to seem interminable. . . . Black Rod. That which delayed George V in opening Parliament was the absence of the plebeian members of the House of Commons. In another part of the Palace of Westminster they were dallying overlong with a ceremony of quaint historic significance...
...League is significant of the changing attitude of official United States at last toward this instrument for peace which the mental abberation of a nation passed by in 1919. The time is not perhaps for distant when those "elder statesmen" in the Senate who exulted over the temporary delay to America's entry into the World Court because of the impossibility of acceptance by European powers of a reservation which would give to the United States rights not belonging to members of the League Council in the Court will be forced by the logic of events into understanding that "splendid...
...Hand. A long coded radio from Vice Admiral Charles S. Williams to U. S. Secretary of State Kellogg caused that statesman abruptly to change his mind as follows: He had instructed John Van Antwerp MacMurray, U. S. Minister at Peking, to hasten to Washington, hoping to delay action in the China crisis while he was in transit. Mr. MacMurray had duly set sail but when he reached Seoul, Korea last week, he was ordered back to Peking, went...
...Bible . . ." Only a handful of newsgatherers and curious public was present in the Nashville courtroom. The Court had had two sittings since it received the Scopes appeal, a year ago. In the decision handed down last week was a phrase that suggested state pride as a reason for the delay...