Word: obstruct
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate has forty rules and 584 pages of precedent. All of the rules seem designed for the individual Senator. For "none of the Senators is negligible because each one of them has the power to obstruct". It was the elderly but long-winded Senator Morgan of Alabama, Mr. Lowry tells, who, interrupted by the arrival of a courier from the President to the Senate, was at a loss to remember his subject. "Was I addressing myself o the Pure Food Bill or the Statehood Bill", he asked the presiding officer. "The Senator from Alabama was addressing himself to the Porto...
...motive to King Ferdinand. They noted well a sentence which dropped from his lips on Jan.1, 1926. Gazing down upon his little grandchild, the King remarked, "So this is my New Year. ..." It was obvious to the dullest wit that the baby Prince Michel is not likely to obstruct the policies of Ferdinand of Hphen-zollern-Sigmaringen and Marie of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. Ironists recalled that for many years Ferdinand and Marie were estranged by a tertium quid, Helene Vacarescu...
Last week M. Leon Blum and his handful of Unified Socialist Deputies continued to flaunt their banner with the strange device "OBSTRUCTION!" M. Blum commands less than one-sixth of the votes in the Chamber; his cohorts represent less than one-tenth of the electorate of France. Yet it happens that, by supporting or refusing to support the bloc of Radicals and Radical-Socialists headed by M. Herriot, M. Blum has been able to obstruct and coerce the Cartel des Gauches,*upon which all the recent governments of France have been forced to rely for a majority...
...politicians, "the man of Locarno," already seven times Premier of France. M. Briand accepted the task of forming a cabinet with reluctance, but moved toward that end adroitly. He offered the Blum faction two or three cabinet posts under him; few enough so that they could not dictate or obstruct the policy of the cabinet, yet a sufficient number to make them "responsible" for Government acts and force them to support the cabinet in the Chamber...
...utterly impossible for them constructively to give us what we fundamentally need in any other way, but it is possible for Borah and others in the strategic position in the Senate to obstruct and thwart this most fundamental project. There is genuine danger that they will do so unless the practically unanimous approval of the United States becomes sufficiently vocal. I believe the students of our universities, many of whom are already voters and the rest of whom will soon become so, can assert a tremendous influence with the Senate especially by writing personal letters to their own Senators...