Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While busy little Publisher Howard chafed at delay, Surrogate Foley reserved decision on the sale application...
...departments. Executives pledged thousands; reporters put themselves down for hundreds ; copy boys telephoned their mothers to ask if they might subscribe $10. City Editor Jim Barrett was made leader of a "mutualization committee." Up on the bulletin board went a copy of a resolution petitioning the Surrogate to delay his decision ten days so that the Worlds' employes might organize and enter their bid. Soon too another notice was posted...
...reform of parliamentary rules which Deputies of the Centre parties, left with the business of trying to run a government, have been urging for months. Urgently needed was some check on filibustering, obstructionist tactics which both Fascists and Communists have been successfully using. Fascists used every tactic to delay passage of the bill, but lost 300 to 160. Stiffly goosestepping from the room the Fascists marched out, their right arms raised in salute, shouting HOCH! HOCH! HOCH!!! They paused long enough to collect their full pay for the month of February...
...signal system which Hultman is now having installed will enable head-quarters to reach any officer within five minutes. Under the existing method of reporting at boxes there is often a delay of as much as 40 minutes...
...stones, which arrived some time ago at Dunster House, are as yet uninstalled due to some unforeseen delay. They are the gift of Magdalene College, Cambridge, which Henry Dunster attended. The stones are to be set into a niche in the vestibule outside the main dining room...