Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Employed secret agents throughout Russia in a partially successful effort to sabotage and delay fulfillment of the Soviet Union's famed Five Year Plan of industrialization (TIME, June 9 et ante...
...telegrams read as follows: "Resolved. That the Harvard Liberal Club emphatically supports President Hoover in submitting the World Court protocols to the Senate and urges the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to act upon them without delay...
Nevertheless, Senator Robinson's reply reassured President Hoover. A White House statement declared: ". . . The fear and apprehension . . . that delay or filibuster would be resorted to to force an extra session of the Congress have . . . no foundation...
...Smith Wildman Brookhart of Iowa last week said he would favor a special session of the 72nd Congress unless all these measures were passed. Senator Henrik Shipstead of Minnesota last week ex pressed similar views. Idaho's Senator William Edgar Borah cryptically, characteristically telegraphed: I DO NOT FAVOR ANY DELAY FOR THE SAKE OF DELAY BUT I HOPE NEVERTHELESS TO SEE SOMETHING DONE ON THE FARM QUESTION He later added : "I do not understand why all this excitement about a supposed filibuster; I do not propose to join any now. I think it is an exhibition of superlative impudence...
...number 73 were placed, while 44 placed themselves. The men who registered were provided with over 700 contacts with business men representing approximately 500 jobs. Many employers have four of five jobs to offer but these are filled with those who register early in the year, while those who delay may miss numberless opportunities for employment...