Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Sumner Welles, official U. S. roving factfinder, arrived back in Rome after a trip to Berlin, Paris, London. Without delay he saw Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano for 70 minutes, King Vittorio Emanuele for 45, Il Duce for 75. Mr. Welles held his tongue, but postponed his sailing back to the U. S. for a day. U. S. Secretary of State Hull denied in Washington that Mr. Welles had acted as an intermediary in Europe's quarrels...
...effort to calm the crowd, which was growing sullen with cries of "Down With Sullivan" and "Make Sullivan Speak," George Robert Stange '42 delivered an address explaining the delay. Branding Sullivan a "publicity seeker" and a "red-baiter," Stange stated that some unidentified person had called Sullivan the night before to reveal that a Leftist play was being put on at Harvard...
...could be bolted together, with the end foundations resting directly on the sidewalks, some fine morning about 2A.M. Next day, behold, the nerve wracking delay of waiting to cross would have been solved and, by their example and public spirit, the gentleman of Harvard would have called attention to a great problem in our midst...
None came. The deadline passed. A period in U. S. politics had ended, a new one had begun. To no one had Franklin Roosevelt yet confided his Term III plans. But now his silence had new meanings, now at last the U. S. realized that President No. 32 will delay his announcement until the last possible second-perhaps even until convention time. Meanwhile he will lift no finger to aid any other Democratic candidate, will quietly permit the Term III fuglemen to dust off any aspirant...
...Sacrifiés"-those who die first-is the French name for such troops, who must watch for and delay an enemy advance until fortress troops behind them can bring artillery into action. On the western half of the Rhine-Moselle sector, German patrols became larger and more aggressive, attacking by day as well as by night. Mischance brought to one French contingent more casualties than had been suffered in a single fight since mid-October. Two truckloads of "sacrifiés," going forward to relieve their comrades, took the wrong road and drove into the German lines. Hidden machine...