Word: sidetracks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Truman Administration over the problem of American subversives in the U.N. In the past nine months, a hundred witnesses appeared before the jurors; they left behind a shocking impression of Red infiltration at the U.N.'s high levels. But Washington, through the Justice and State Departments, tried to sidetrack and block the inquiry. In a thunderous presentment, shaking off all attempts to restrain it, the grand jury made public its findings. Main points...
Said Chairman Chelf: "It appears to me that there was a definite attempt either to flag down, delay, sidetrack, derail or entirely wreck this grand-jury investigation." The committee voted to call in ex-Attorney General McGrath for a fuller explanation...
...this point For Men Only dilutes its story with such exagerated side-plots as the attempt of Omega Nu's president to trump up a morals charge against the professor. But in the course of this sidetrack, we get a picture of the college administration performing various acrobatic hush-up operations to prevent "the alumni's pens from freezing in their checkbooks...
...other resolution, jointly sponsored by India and the eleven Asian and Arab nations, was plainly designed to sidetrack the U.S. measure and open the way for admission of Communist China to U.N. It called for an immediate conference with Peking, while the fighting in Korea continued. Purpose: to get "all necessary elucidations and amplifications" of Peking's latest message to the U.N. relayed by India. That message, which Warren Austin had bitingly called "not much more than a postal card," had in effect notified U.N. that Peking would agree to a cease-fire only on its own terms...
...housing were brushed aside for a specific promise. Cried 38-year-old Harmar Nicholls, M.P. for Peterborough: "Our message should be this: that from existing stocks and available labor we should guarantee to give housing first call up to 300,000 houses a year." When the committee tried to sidetrack the figure 300,000, pandemonium broke loose, hundreds of voices chanted, "We want...