Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...should receive the Tariff Commission's recommendations, President Hoover last week waited until the eve of the Senate's debate on the matter, then issued a statement defending his rate-changing power as it stands. He said it was a wise power, protecting public interest from long delay, guarding against too-frequent revisions of the whole tariff. It had been held constitutional, he reminded. It did not make the President a despot, etc., etc. Having thus broken his silence on the Tariff, President Hoover once more fell silent, watched the Tariff War from afar...
...hundreds of men who stood outside the Union yesterday afternoon while the cold northeaster trickled down their necks, must have felt that some simpler way of applying for football tickets might be devised. And it is not probable that their feelings would be much altered by the confusion and delay of the ticket office, which is hardly preferable to the weather outside. Granted that foresight would have brought them to the ticket office earlier in the week, human nature dictates that the vast majority will always put the matter off until the last minute...
...delay in getting out the University Register and the difficulty in obtaining the addresses of the students in time for the football season makes this impossible...
...Rowland Angell announced that the general education board and donated an additional $500,000, making available a total of $2,000,000, the remainder having come from the Rockefeller Foundation. President Angell believes that this building will be ready for use before the next academic year, despite a considerable delay caused by the refusal of a cobbler, Giacomo Como, to vacate a small shack until his lease had expired. An agreement was reached by which he will house his shop in another place, rent free...
...President Hoover announced that if Congressmen from the lower Mississippi Basin were willing to assume responsibility by requesting it, he was willing to delay Mississippi flood control work in that region...