Word: obstructionism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Waiting in Philadelphia last week for famed Bronchoscopist Chevalier Jackson to haul a hooked dental bridge out of his gullet was a Detroit medical student. En route from Australia last week was a child from whose lung Dr. Jackson is expected to remove a foreign body. Shipped home fortnight ago...
Dr. Jackson advises people with removable dental bridges or sets of false teeth to take them out of their mouths before going to sleep. "Some people are extremely sensitive about this," he once told a group of Philadelphia dentists, "and it is amazing the number of people who are annoyed...
In spite of the obvious righteousness of his task, Senator Black finds the friends of his enemies and the enemies of all right-minded people not only numerous, but well-disciplined and clever. As soon as an inquiry is even mentioned, thousands of indignant telgrams pour into the Senate, and...
The county attorney and public safety commissioner quit under fire. About the time lowans finished their State Fair revels last month (TIME. Sept. 9), the grand jury was concluding its work. It indicted 60 officials, gamblers and divekeepers on charges of conspiracy, bribery, perjury, obstruction of justice. At the top...
Senator from Louisiana launched into a speech which was to take its place along with the great orations of obstruction in U. S. history.