Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ventilate the whole situation, Premier van Zeeland insisted on a special meeting of Parliament. King Leopold, whose favorite Premier is Paul van Zeeland, may delay the meeting till passions have cooled somewhat. Well he knew that though Paul van Zeeland might be personally guiltless, it was his duty as Premier to know what monkey business the directors of the State bank of issue were indulging...
...This delay was hailed as a victory for the A. F. of L.-minded Chicagoans, but actually it was not, since the C. I. 0. enthusiasts had no hope of winning the convention over at this session, wanted chiefly to keep the question open while they got in further spade work. Moreover, the resolution condemned A. F. of L.'s suspension of C. I. O. unions as "undemocratic action," put the Teachers' Federation on record as refusing to pay special antiC. I. O. assessments levied by A. F. of L., commended "the great success...
...Forrest Tancer and H. Victor Schwimmer, this seemed a willful omission-a plain violation of the Securities Act, punishable by fine or imprisonment. Usual procedure in such cases is for SEC to hand over its material to the Department of Justice, but Lawyers Tancer and Schwimmer felt that delay might tempt Mr. Low into Ontario where he would be unable to clarify the stock sale for SEC examiners.* Accordingly last week they had red-faced Distiller Low arrested by a U. S. marshal, and announced that they would seek an indictment at the close of the investigation...
...came up to London from, Sandringham the day after my father's death [Jan. 20, 1936] to convey the express desire of my mother that the funeral should take place on Jan. 28. She was most anxious to avoid a long and painful delay, like that of two weeks which elapsed between the death and burial of my grandfather, King Edward...
...Japanese industrialists had no intention of making any immediate trade agreements. Avowed their chairman, sunny President Chokyuro Kadono of the Japanese Chamber of Commerce: "The primary consideration . . . was that the courtesy shown to us in the spring of 1935 [by the Forbes mission] . . . should be returned without delay." When they departed on the Normandie last week to attend the International Chamber of Commerce meeting in Berlin, Mr. Kadono and fellow missionaries were fatigued but well-satisfied that they had missed few contacts in the U. S. Accompanied by two wives, three managers, seven assistants and some 200 pieces of baggage...