Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most important of all is this final, negative proviso: "It follows that, in adopting this report, the members of. the League intend to abstain, particularly as regards the existing regime in Manchuria [i. e. the "Government of Manchukuo"] from any act which might prejudice or delay the carrying out of the recommendations of the said report. They will continue not to recognize this regime, either de jure or de facto...
...door to get a drink outside and the crowd of female clerks at the threshold fell headlong into his arms and the board room. "Hello-hello-hello!" he repeated as he shook girl after girl by the hand. Girls flocked in from all over the building. Annoyed at the delay, pompous R. F. C. Chairman Pomerene finally banged for order...
...there any reason why the Freshman officers should not be nominated in the regular way by those whom they are supposed to represent? Certainly the class is now well enough acquainted to choose with reason and without delay whom they desire for president, vice-president, and secretary-treasurer. Probably they would renominate some who have already been put on the list but at least they would not have to accept what was handed out to them or else nothing...
Some Senators feared that if Mr. Barry were peremptorily dismissed, the Senate would be publicly condemned as hot-headed and vengeful. Others argued that unless the Sergeant-at-Arms were quickly ousted, the country would interpret the Senate's delay as a confession of guilt. Senator Norris moved immediate dismissal. The Senate divided on party lines and the motion was lost 31-to-40. The Barry case was referred to the Judiciary Committee. A helpful newshawk reminded Mr. Barry of a statement made last May by Senator Carter Glass concerning branch banking. To the committee, Mr. Barry quoted...
Detroit, which "has no waiting list for sanatorium treatment. Patients either white or colored are admitted without delay. . . . An unusual development is the existence of several small hospitals and sanatoria for Negroes with tuberculosis owned and operated by Negro physicians, and staffed by Negro physicians and nurses...