Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manchuria, drafted at a cost of more than $400,000 by dyspeptic Lord Lytton's Commission (TIME, Sept. 5). Tokyo papers carried a 200-word summary of the 400-page report-a summary surprisingly favorable to Japan. Next day Japan's Foreign Office asked the League to delay publication of the Lytton Report (scheduled to appear this week), for at least another six weeks. Why? The Foreign Office refused to explain. To most Chinese and many an Occidental it seemed possible that Japan was asking the League to hold back the true text while she spread around...
...suggested that her son-in-law Anton, able aviator, fly her there. The Archduke was in no mood to leave his wife and six-day-old son. But Mother-in-law Marie would entrust her life to no other pilot. Archduke Anton gave in, was further vexed by delay when his sister-in-law, Queen Marie of Jugoslavia, lost her way driving them to the airport...
...Francisco guests convened to witness the marriage of Martha Catching and Dr. Robert Max Herbst. After a long delay it was announced that the wedding was postponed, because Fred Herbst. best man and brother of the groom, and Ann Catching, maid of honor and sister of the bride, had eloped...
...will have United States troops proceed immediately to the scene of the disorder. Surround the affected area and clear it without delay. . . . Any women and children should be accorded every consideration and kindness. Use all humanity consistent with the execution of this order...
General MacArthur observed that the B. E. F. "was a bad looking mob animated by the essence of revolution." A week's delay by the President, he thought, "would have threatened the institution of our Government." According to the General, not one man out of ten in the B. E. F. was a "real veteran...