Word: hamstrung
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some of those states which are now most vocal [against the tariff] would need amplifiers to make their whispers heard. Such states as Arizona, South Dakota, Idaho, Mississippi etc. do not pay enough toward the upkeep of the government to cover the costs of collection, and states like Pennsylvania, hamstrung as they are by adverse legislation, support these backward commonwealths and provide them with their good roads, post offices, river improvements and other federal aid, figuratively on a golden platter...
...those with jobs and time to ponder questions of Empire, Mr. Lloyd George appealed by begging them to turn out a Conservative Government which, he said, had hamstrung England's trade with Russia and provoked the U. S. by bunglesome handling of the Coolidge naval limitations proposal. From this the spellbinder swung through a long transition to the surprising statement that the Conservatives "made a foolish, reckless settlement of the British debt to America [in 1923] without waiting for an international settlement which would have wiped out all debts and started the world afresh...
...According to his long explicit cable the Tardieu "Program of Realization" will be put through by flaunting the "American" slogan "Prosperity!", and will feature creation of a National Economic Council with extraordinary power to act in stimulating French production and commerce. Hitherto the notorious bickering of French politicians has hamstrung many important measures of a purely economic sort. According to M. Dosch-Fleurot, the proposed National Economic Council would have right of way over Parliamentary bickerers in many important respects...
...submarine issue and a similar but very technical disagreement over the "categories" in which naval limitation would be practicable has hamstrung every session of the League Disarmament Committee, and resulted in the abstention of both France and Italy from the Coolidge Naval Limitations Parley (TIME, June 27, 1927). Incidentally the Coolidge session adjourned in disagreement when the U, S. and Great Britain became hopelessly deadlocked over the issue of "categories...
...credentials had already been voided by the Senate's investigation last winter; that the culprits had "had their day in court" with the Senate's investigators. If they had not, that was the fault of rich Mr. Vare's colleague, the other Senator Reed, who "hamstrung" the investigating committee by a filibuster...