Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...South Station. Twenty minutes before ten. The train isn't ready yet. Some delay by the Pullman Company. The players fool around. A small crowd looks on observantly, wonderingly. These guys are big, somebody says...
...Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has been handicapped by President Roosevelt's delay in filling vacancies (one of which still exists), and even with the vacancy filled, another judge is needed...
...longer afford the luxury of 20 year lags. You will find no justification in any of the language of the Constitution for delay in the reforms which the mass of the American people demand. . . . I ask that the American people rejoice in the wisdom of their Constitution. ... I ask that they give their fealty to the Constitution itself and not to its misinterpreters. . . . For us, the Constitution is a common bond, without bitterness, for those who see America as Lincoln saw it-the last, best hope of earth.' So we revere it, not because it is old but because...
Since the bankruptcy act was extended to railroads four years ago, no less than 32 Class I roads operating a third of U. S. trackage have taken advantage of its sanctuary. But no single major railroad reorganization has been completed. This is partly because roads have felt they should delay reorganization until earnings improved, partly because warring groups of security holders have been unable to agree on terms. Lately the situation has become more complicated as railroad earnings, after sharp improvements, have fallen off because of rapid rises in operating costs...
Among the roads in receivership suffering most from this is the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific. Last week, therefore, when the St. Paul petitioned the Interstate Commerce Commission to delay a reorganization hearing scheduled for Sept. 20, U. S. railroad men waited attentively to see whether I. C. C. would grant the delay. After two days' thought, the commissioners said "No," a broad hint that henceforth I. C. C. will insist on reorganizations being pushed through to completion...