Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subsidiary. His glib influence over fellow workers was greater than that of Leader Lewis whose code activities in Washington Miner Ryan distrusted. He harangued the men out of the pits when Lewis implored them to stick. He was the last to consent to a compromise with the operators. As delay followed delay on the code, he blew hot words on the miners' discontent. Why was there no code yet? Because the operators were stalling for time. Why did they want time? So they could mine a surplus of coal at low wages and then shut down and sell...
...would find itself pinched by Tax No. 4 on excess profits. The gasoline and dividend taxes have been regularly collected since the law's passage. The first capital stock tax payment was due last week but the Treasury obligingly postponed the date to Sept. 29 because of a delay in distributing blank returns. Excess profits for 1933 are taxable when corporations make their regular income returns March...
When about midnight the lights went down for the amateur floor show, Huey Long went shuffling off to the washroom. There were others there. The raucous Senator was impatient of any delay. Imperiously he ordered a young man to stand aside for the "Kingfish of Louisiana." "Take it easy-take it easy," replied the young man. Unable or unwilling to restrain himself, Senator Long proceeded to commit a gross indignity upon the young man. When he felt what was happening to his leg the young man wheeled around, drove his knuckles with all his might into the offender...
...last-minute fanfare the valve had been opened & closed several times while those near the balloon listened for escaping gas. Commander Settle later admitted that he was not quite positive the valve was completely closed as he took off, but was unwilling to spoil the show with further delay. The Chicago Daily News, which had financed and ballyhooed the flight (with the Exposition and National Broadcasting Co.) refused to admit defeat. Stubbornly it boasted: "A balloon flight that ended as brilliantly as it began gave Chicago one of its greatest thrills. The climax was the unexpected. Settle did not reach...
...None of which includes the chief cause of Chicago's troubles: so much crookery in tax assessments that tax payers were able to force new assessments, causing so much delay that for over two years Chicago collected almost no revenue, has not yet caught up. Chicago's debt is not high compared to that of many other cities; Chicago has not defaulted on her bonds...