Word: roadblockers
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There they came before the House Ways & Means Committee's Chairman Dan Reed, who last year had set up a roadblock on Administration bills in his committee. This year the Administration was so pleased by signs of cooperation from a mollified Reed that it leaned over backwards to accommodate him. The result was a deal in which Reed agreed not to bottle up the Administration's social-security expansion bill if the Administration would not press for its trade and tariff program, except for a simple one-year extension of Reciprocal Trade Agreements authority. What the Administration...
...this, the committee's three Democrats saw their error in denouncing the presidential order as a roadblock to further hearings. And committee Republicans backed away from their hopes to cut the hearings short, gritted their teeth in preparation for what Army Counsel Joseph Welch has labeled "plowing the long furrow...
Party) pledge, Dworshak was treated by many G.O.P. colleagues to pained looks and stony silence. He got to thinking. Said he: "I really didn't want to be a roadblock. This is my Administration. Why should I fight it unnecessarily?" There was a way out. Dworshak, some of whose mining constituents see a rich field for investment in Alaska as a state, got a promise from Chairman Hugh Butler that Alaska would be approved by the committee soon after Hawaii. With that assurance. Henry Dworshak provided the swing vote in another 8-to-7 decision, this one to report...
...depth of three miles. General Dean gave the retreat order and led the last Americans in a motor column south from Taejon. Outside the city, he picked up seven walking wounded, loaded them into his jeep and climbed aboard the prime mover of a howitzer. At an enemy roadblock. Dean's aide and his interpreter were wounded. Finally the battered motorcade was stopped by a stalled truck which blocked the road. Dean ordered the vehicles abandoned, and led the men on foot across country into a bean patch. That night, as they worked their way south into the mountains...
Most of Oregon's Willamette River was shaded to the water's edge by a vast and unbroken Douglas fir forest in 1845, but two optimistic New Englanders who had just decided to found a metropolis on its west bank paid little attention to this awesome sylvan roadblock. They had a more important problem-picking a name for their dream city. Neither wasted a moment considering any local Indian words. Massachusetts-born Asa Lovejoy insistently cried: "Boston!" Maine-born Francis Pettygrove stubbornly cried: "Portland!" Finally they tossed a big, old-fashioned copper one-cent piece. Petty-grove...