Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They came to deposit each on behalf of his Government its ratification of the two nine-power treaties negotiated at the Washington Arms Conference regarding conduct of foreign powers to China. The delay in consummating the treaties was due to the failure of France to ratify the treaties until a few weeks...
...with a wry smile, jerked himself to his feet to confound his critics. He had tried, said he, to settle a naval building policy in order to prevent yearly friction between the Admiralty and the Treasury. The Admiralty had proposed a policy and he, Mr. Churchill, had urged a delay of one year before putting it into effect. But the Government had (allegedly because Admiral of the Fleet Lord Beatty and First Lord Bridgeman had threatened to resign) eventually decided to proceed at once with the shipbuilding scheme, provided that the Admiralty made economies which affected the cost...
After lengthy conversations involving considerable delay, M. Aristide Briand, French Foreign Minister, replied to Germany that she must become a member of the League of Nations before anything could be done; that whatever was done must in no sense modify the Peace Treaties; that arbitration treaties (proposed by Germany to guarantee "a peaceful settlement of juridical and political conflicts") ought to be signed not only with France but with Belgium and, by implication, with Poland and Czechoslovakia. Under no circumstances shall room be left in these treaties for coercive action except "when such action shall be undertaken consistently with...
...Premier Mussolini has directed me to begin without delay the negotiations for the settlement of our war debt to the United States...
...Powers of delay are a necessary protection, at times. Six states now provide nearly two-thirds of the federal revenue. These six states have only twelve Senators in 96, and if this minority had not the use of the threat of a filibuster their states might be horribly robbed...