Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Colonel Blanton Winship, the polished law officer of the Court, of course accepted the delay with equanimity. James O'Donnell...
...Colonel Winship could bear delay with equanimity, Major General Robert Lee Howze, president of the Court could not. He is a disciplinarian of the first water. Way back in '91 he got the Congressional Medal of Honor for licking a crowd of Sioux in South Dakota. This week he proceeded to rake the counsel over the coals. The Trial Judge Advocates explained that they had not known until the day before what witnesses the defense wished to call...
...safe, and the great airship inflated with helium is beyond a doubt the safest method of travel known to man, taking precedence over walking on account of traffic congestion on the streets. ... In the air the airship is practically independent of weather, as storms with attendant high winds merely delay progress to windward. . . . Severe thunderstorms and disturbances with strong vertical air currents may be avoided by changes of course, as these disturbances usually extend over a comparatively small area and move at a rate of speed well below that of an airship. Thus the airship can avoid the tornado...
...Pospisil took a short cut. Said he: "As there are a number of disputed items between us as to the capital sum of the debt, we believe that, instead of entering upon the very large expense and delay involved on both sides by a reaccounting, we are prepared to yield on some considerable part of these items and to propose to you a round sum of settlement-that is, that we should consider the capital of the debt as at June...
...sought to have the House of Bishops convene a final court of appeal to which to carry his case. The Bishops have before declined to convene this court which is optionally provided for in the constitution of the Church. In this case it would have meant three years delay, to the next triennial convention before the machinery of the court could be approved. The Bishops declined to call the court. They allowed Bishop Brown to plead his case-to argue for half an hour that he had not had a fair trial, but his lawyer was not admitted. Then...