Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some 13 days. The London market had comparatively little difficulty in liquidating" its yen contracts, but Washington was perplexed and anxious because U. S. markets were badly clogged. Middle of the week the Governor of the Bank of Japan, Eigo Fukai, "explained" that the ban was only a "temporary delay," that Japanese banks were working with increased staffs to straighten the tangle. Said he: "It was necessary to stabilize the situation by slowing down unnecessary imports. In a few days exchange contracts will again be coming into the market...
...Only when the Quarantine Station men gave the word might the yellow flag be hauled down, anchor weighed, the ship set in motion to her dock. This sanitary permission to deal with people ashore maritime men call "pratique." Hereafter most passenger ships bound for New York may avoid all delay at Quarantine by taking advantage of "radio pratique." This is a convenience worked out last year by Dr. Charles Vivian Akin Jr., senior surgeon...
...erstwhile commercial artist model. Helen Burgess is a Paramount stock player also new to the screen. Key situation of A Doctor's Diary is the villainy of Dr. Ludlow (Sidney Blackmer) who postpones an operation on a boy violinist to attend to a rich client. Because of the delay the fiddler loses the use of his playing arm. Dr. Dan Norris (John Trent) threatens to testify against Dr. Ludlow, losing thereby his job and his fiancee, Catherine Stanwood (Ruth Cole-man), daughter of a hospital owner. Trent transfers his interest to Ruth Hanlon (Helen Burgess), a nurse who expressed...
...Delay In Denver, Colo., a Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad train arrived four hours late because the train repeatedly stopped for no apparent reason. Investigation disclosed that an elephant in the baggage car had spent the trip pulling the airbrake rope with its trunk...
Eastman devoted the last half of his speech to a defense of public service agencies. He asserted that delay, due to so-called bureaucratic red-tape, was a result of the difficulty in interpreting laws, knowing what evidence to accept and exclude, and making a decision fully backed by the most minute detail. If all these factors were not taken into account, endless litigation would quickly follow. But the greatest cause for delay, Eastman believes, is the vast undertaking of collecting data on large interstate organizations...