Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Delay. If he could answer the people, the press, the Convention, there remained the problem of answering the Democratic Party that was going into a campaign in which it would be unseemly for the President to take an active part. From a dimly lighted, peach-colored telephone booth in the reception room of Chicago's Blackstone Hotel, Senator James Byrnes called the White House, formally informed President Roosevelt that he was the Democratic nominee. All day in Washington the White House remained silent except for a statement that the President would address the Convention after a Vice-Presidential nominee...
...example of disheartening delay, Mr. Stettinius wrathfully cited an incident which also exemplified the new mutual attitude of U. S. Government and Business. One of the commission's prime concerns is aluminum, which aircraft makers will need in stupendous quantities. At the urgent behest of Messrs. Stettinius & Knudsen, the House last week was asked to appropriate $25,000,000 for a new TVA dam, wherewith to supply the Aluminum Co. of America with critically needed power. Up popped Republican anti-TVA Congressman McLean of New Jersey, Republican Congressman Dirksen of Illinois, blocked the appropriation. They were unmoved by assurances...
...From Rumania, Bulgaria, backed by Russia, wants the southern Dobruja without delay...
...Senate Foreign Relations Committee, handed reporters a statement that advised the British Government to abandon the British Isles to Hitler. Said he: "It is no secret that Great Britain is totally unprepared for defense and that nothing the United States has to give can do more than delay the result. Churchill's statement, 'We will never surrender' and that if any portions of the British Isles are subjugated 'we will fight from the New World with our navy,' if carried out and carried out immediately, will end Hitler's ambition for world conquest...
...with a heavy upstream tide to contend with, eight varsity crews got away. Had chilled onlookers not been disgruntled by long delay and frequent false alarms, they might have taken home memories of a great race...