Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unions struck for a closed shop. Deputized vigilantes from nearby towns and farms shot down five pickets, took over the dam site, behaved so raucously that Colorado's Governor Ralph L. Carr dispatched National Guardsmen to suppress "a state of insurrection." Distressed by the bloodshed, put out by delay, Roy Warner remembered his wise, calm friend in Chicago...
...Homer Cummings' day, the law's delay was accentuated by court dockets loaded down with arrears. From a high of 45,000 pending civil and criminal cases in 1933, he got them reduced to some 22,000 in 1938, but there was still good cause for incoming Frank Murphy to demand faster action from the courts...
...Rhode Island, no orator but a great conniver. At his home the President's opponents met secretly, unsuspected. And another Democrat headed the Judiciary Committee which had the bill in charge: Ashurst of Arizona. That elegant obfuscator contributed nobly the second essential of McNary's stratagem: delay...
...Thomas of U. A. W.C. I. O., accused the corporation of bad faith. Said he: "General Motors knows that we speak for these workers. The strike vote . . . proved that.''* Why then did U. A. W.C. I. 0. object to an election being held? Because it would delay matters until the tool & die men, if they went on working, should finish their jobs and be laid...
...radio hook-up with the U. S., the U. S.-educated Mme Chiang Kaishek, the Generalissimo's most trusted helper, claimed that Chinese resistance had virtually exhausted the Japanese, but asked that the Western nations declare "without delay" economic sanctions against Japan...