Word: sidetracked
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International: United Nations May Sidetrack Debate on Veto...
...York's tabloid Daily News headlined: POX VACCINE . . . MAY SIDETRACK CUPID. The story: because vaccination sometimes causes a false positive Wassermann, vaccinated couples, required by state .aw to pass the Wassermann test before getting a marriage license, would have to delay their weddings until their vaccinations wear...
...dawdled so long over the British loan (TIME, May 6) that one day last week Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley lurched angrily from his front-row seat and, with ill-concealed irritation, served notice that he would resist "with all the powers at my command" any attempt to sidetrack the loan bill for anything else, not even the draft law, which is due to expire...
...Sidetrack. In Philadelphia, James Ware, who took a summer job in 1894 as a railroad waiter, to help pay his way through medical school, got a 50-year service button from the railroad...
Dubious in economics, the case of OPA is stronger in terms of pressure politics. Biggest (but unmentioned) reason for its concern with high railroad earnings is the fear that big rail profits will make it impossible for the Government to sidetrack the demand of the railroad operating brotherhoods for further wage increases of $3 a day and of the nonoperating unions for 20? an hour. These increases, if granted, will add some $750,000,000 to railroad costs (or almost enough to wipe out 1942 profits) and put that amount of money directly into the hands of railroad workers...