Word: needlessness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freyre, the Peruvian representative on the Commission, naturally supported General Pershing. Señor Edwards, the Chilean Commissioner, who withdrew a fortnight ago (TIME, Dec. 7) as a protest against the Commission's "needless delay" in holding the plebiscite, was again on hand and demanded that Feb. 1 be set as the voting date. He again contended that Chile had no intention of coercing the voters and said that the Commission's instructions had been complied with to the letter...
Dispassionate observers reluctantly opined that Chile appears to be nervous lest General Pershing should announce that he has discovered further Chilean attempts to "fix" the plebiscite during the period of "needless delay...
...Needless to say, the authority for this legend is nebulous. Another version has it that a white standard upon which the hero Osman fell was stained with his blood into the famed device. His scimiter, on which he lay, produced the crescent; similarly a diadem, crushed beneath him, prevented the blood from staining a white star-shaped patch...
Last week the deliberations of the Tacna-Arica Plebiscitary Commission,* chairmaned by General John J. Pershing, reached an acute stage of discord when the Chilean representative, Agustin Edwards, withdrew from the Commission, protesting that there had been needless delay in promulgating the terms of the plebiscite, and that after four months of marking time no date for it had actually been...
...needless to say that readers of the Times were shocked. They saw that the august newspaper whose pontifications determine their views had been duped into reprinting as a quotation from a college journal an editorial which had been written in its own offices. The more choleric among them sat down to compose heated letters. "Let the right hand of the Times," they suggested, "find out what its left is doing...