Word: obstructionism
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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...
As France drifted last week without a Government following the fall of M. Painlevé's Cabinet (TIME, Nov. 30) it was this factor of willful minority-obstruction which threatened to make it impossible for President Doumergue to find anyone at all who could possibly form a stable government...
But if the moralist is entitled to one groan of regret, admirers of scenery must be permitted several sighs of relief. They may now gaze with less glaring obstruction upon the natural beauties of the landscape. The graceful swell of the meadow will no longer be surmounted by pork-and...
Of these signs, as yet only abstractly visible, the principal one is that Premier King is feeling strong enough to face the country and confident enough that the Grits* can score an even greater victory than they did in the last Dominion election. These considerations are materially strengthened by the...
As it must to all men, death came to Henry Cabot Lodge, in the 75th year of his life and the 32nd of his service to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the U. S. Senate. Seemingly successful operations for a prostatic obstruction were followed by a stroke, from which Senator...