Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Party leaders were prosecuted and convicted, and other important legislation. His apogee was between 1955 and 1961 when, as chairman, he had absolute control over the Rules Committee, and the committee often had decisive influence over the fate of bills. Smith repeatedly used that strength with great skill to block, dilute or delay social welfare legislation and civil rights bills. Though he kept the chairmanship his authority crumbled when John Kennedy and House Speaker Sam Rayburn succeeded in adding anti-Smith members to the committee. Smith also lost influence as the House grew more liberal...
Last Spring, when the University was desperately looking for a workable site for the 10th House, it considered including a piece of this land. At the time, it hadn't acquired all the plots on the block now being used for the 10th House, and thought it might have to use additional space to build a large enough House. Administration members then mentioned two major drawbacks: the undesirability of building one House on two pieces of land, and the sacrifice of the second plot, which, they said, could eventually be used for the 11th House
...given scant chance against a Democrat whose name had special magic in New York ?Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. He was the only Republican winner on the state ticket. When Javits sought the senatorial nomination in 1956, the party's conservatives did their best to block him. He finally got the nomination, after Millionaire John Hay Whitney issued an ultimatum: if the party rejected Javits, it could cross Whitney's gilt-edged name off its contributors' list. That time Javits had to run against another Democrat with a famous political name in New York, Robert F. Wagner Jr., and again...
...bill never got through. The housewives' campaign was quickly taken up by the Tokyo press, and soon block headlines and black editorials were condemning the dry cleaners' lobby. The furor hit Premier Eisaku Sato, whose popularity keeps dropping as prices keep rising, where it hurt most. Worried about the latest opinion polls, which showed that only 28.8% of the Japanese public supports him, Sato warned his party leaders to "proceed slowly" on the bill-which in his language meant drop it. Economic Planner Aiichiro Fujiyama chimed in to say that it should be "studied further"-which...
...Paris' Palais Galliera last week, Daumier earned back the 12 francs, with interest, as the largest group of his works ever put up for auction went on the block. The 338 sculptures, drawings and lithographs were only a fraction of the collection of a French banker and founder of breweries through out North Africa named René Gaston-Dreyfus, 80, who began buying Daumiers before World...