Word: obstructionism
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The consequent feeling of depression was evident in the closing hours. The Democrats .strove to shift the burden of disfavor upon the Republican Congress. The Republican members were eager to lay any failure to obstruction by Democrats and insurgents. Both were anxious to put blame on the Administration, which retained...
The blame for the necessity of investigation was laid upon Germany: "If now, more than four years after the Treaty has been in effect, Germany must accept investigation by interallied commission, the responsibility for this situation is hers, for without the systematic obstruction, of which the Allies so often have...
"Judged by its conduct in the past few years, it seems to me that the title of the Democratic Party to its emblem, the rooster, so far less noble than the eagle, at least endowed with courage and the love of fair play, is decidedly shaky. It has been standing...
Of course the party in power still has a year in which to prove its inestimable value to the country. The Sixty-eighth Congress may work wonders, President Coolidge may stand forth from his present seclusion in bright and shining raiment. But the prospects for this can scarcely be called...
Upton Sinclair, Socialist novelist, was arrested for " breach of the peace and obstruction of traffic," at San Pedro (port of Los Angeles). There had been a strike of marine transport workers in San Pedro. It was charged to the I. W. W. Los Angeles (which probably comes nearer to being...