Word: obstructionism
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¶Joseph Weinberg: "In 1950 Dr. Oppen heimer told an agent of the FBI that he had not known Joseph Weinberg to be a member of the Communist Party until that fact became public knowledge. Yet on Sept. 12, 1943, Dr. Oppenheimer told Colonel Lansdale that Weinberg was a Communist...
Next impediment was the ceiling, an umbrellalike structure peculiar to buildings which house cycloramas. This is hung so that natural light from a skylight is diffused over the painting. Because the outer edge of the umbrella hid parts of the painting from the camera, a roofing company was hired to...
Despite the last-minute nervousness, the West knows what it wants at Berlin. A cogent State Department memorandum to U.S. diplomatic missions in Europe put the objectives roughly as follows: ¶ To reach agreement on a free, unified Germany, and thus open the way to a general European settlement. ¶...
Full Realization. Many a Democrat, and Republican too, thinks that the Administration has not made enough of a record so far, that there has been too much study of issues, not enough decision, that the President gave in too easily when he faced congressional obstruction from members of his own...
Even though many big news stories are telecast, publishers no longer fear TV as a threat to daily newspaper circulation. They have decided that TV, if it does anything for them, whets rather than dulls readers' appetites for printed news. But for working newspapermen, TV is often an obstruction...