Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yield the Sudetenland to Germany. Dr. Benes left it to high-minded, sad-faced Viscount Halifax, the British Foreign Secretary, to tell Polish and Hungarian envoys in London at two extremely angry sessions that they could not have what Germany could wrest by her Might; instead, they must delay their claims until a later date. The psychologist of Prague correctly judged that this would be the point at which Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain would balk, telling the Führer at Godesberg that, while one piece might have to be carved off Czechoslovakia, it was impossible for His Majesty...
...Alexandria and the defeat of Representative Norman R. Hamilton of Portsmouth. Mr. Smith's opponent was William E. Dodd Jr., 32, son of Franklin Roosevelt's former Ambassador to Germany, picked to run against Judge Smith by Roosevelt henchmen who consider Judge Smith too independent (he helped delay the Wages & Hours Bill). Candidate Dodd was given a campaign manager from Attorney General Cummings' staff, an endorsement by C.I.O.'s John L. Lewis (whose Alexandria home is in the district...
Since Douglas had demanded reorganization, this strategy called for appointment of a committee to study reorganization, then delay on the job long enough for the crisis to blow over. Accordingly, the governors voted for such a committee, gave Gay the right to appoint it. But Gay had seen the light. Viewing the crash (by then the Dow-Jones average had dropped to 113), the depression and Douglas' determination, Gay decided it was time to play ball. To the fury of the Old Guard, he appointed a genuinely liberal committee headed by a non-Exchange member, Carle Cotter Conway, dynamic...
Impatient at Death's delay, he scrawled: "What the hell...
...cabled Playwright Shaw, finally extracted his assurance that his terms "would not be too unreasonable'' (TIME, May 8). Last week, when Heartbreak House, after running for six weeks, was about to close, the Mercury Theatre finally got Playwright Shaw's terms and his excuse for the delay...