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...Washington's Warehouse Employees' Local 730 after its treasury was looted by its officers in 1952, Baker joined up with Jimmy Hoffa, went to work in St. Louis for Hoffa Lieutenant Harold Gibbons. Baker's specialty: "belly bumping," i.e., using his gross girth to direct or obstruct picket line traffic...
Those earnestly seeking to improve and modernize Cambridge should attack all instances of opportunism and profiteering which obstruct progress more than the tenacity of slum areas or the shortage of funds. To move forward, Cambridge must undermine all such schemes to profit by her desire...
...Obstruct." The week of disappointment began as a week of hope. The four governors-North Carolina's Luther Hodges, Florida's LeRoy Collins, Maryland's Republican Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin, Tennessee's Frank Clement-drove up to the west side entrance of the White House to keep their appointment. (Missing: Georgia's Faubus-like Governor Marvin Griffin, who backed out at the last minute.) Their historic mission was to try to arrange with the President terms for the withdrawal of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division from Little Rock. Specifically, they proposed that...
...valid federal court order. Narrowing down to the Southern governors' Little Rock formula, the President wanted Faubus first to promise to use his police powers positively to enforce federal court orders; eventually the President settled for the Southern governors' draft that Faubus would promise negatively "not to obstruct" federal court orders. Midway in the meeting, the President set his own personal keynote: "I have never said what I thought about the Supreme Court decision-I have never told a soul-but how I feel about it is immaterial. The fact is that...
Canada First. As the course and aims of the new government emerged in the past two months. Canadians seemed increasingly pleased with the change of faces in Ottawa. Even Liberal newspapers found little to carp about, and leaders of the opposition parties promised not to "obstruct" the new government. On Oct. 14, Queen Elizabeth II will read a government policy statement to the new 23rd Parliament, and Diefenbaker will then present his legislative program to a hostile majority in the House of Commons. The opposition parties could join forces at any time to overthrow his government and force...