Word: obstruct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bolsters the authority of federal courts by making it a federal crime to obstruct any court orders "by threats or force." Originally, the Administration called for restricting this to court orders involving only school desegregation, but Southerners won their fight to expand the statute into all fields, e.g., labor disputes...
...Dirksen resolutely reversed his own month-old vote in the drive for unity, voted to make it a federal crime to obstruct any order by a U.S. court-not just an order concerning school integration. Dirksen's switchover to the broader proposal helped line up a 68-to-20 majority for this amendment...
...NATO Secretary-General Paul-Henri Spaak, "a Socialist and an old enemy of the Spanish regime," and that the whole thing was a Jewish-Masonic plot. With undisguised delight, Russia's Tass bayed that "the two most reactionary states in Europe" had concluded "a backstage deal ... to obstruct the relaxation of international tensions...
Neither the trust of public office nor compassion for fellow men stemmed the tabloid flow of the news. In New York City, Hulan Jack, borough president of Manhattan, suspended himself from office after his indictment for criminal conspiracy to obstruct justice. Eight Chicago policemen, technically guardians of the law and justice, were arrested as the leaders of a brazen, multithousand-dollar burglary ring. In the case of two airline crashes in which 76 hapless passengers lost their lives, fingers of suspicion pointed to Julian Frank, a heavily insured lawyer who died in one crash, and to Robert Spears, a convicted...
...Manhattan, dumped two white hopefuls, gave Jack the nod. Elected and re-elected four years later, Hulan Jack stood as one of the nation's highest-ranking Negro officeholders-until last week, when he suspended himself after being indicted by a grand jury on charges of conspiracy to obstruct justice and three violations of the city charter...