Word: obstructionists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...free agent. In 1920 he had been put forward as a perfunctory Favorite Son for the Presidential nomination, to block McAdoo. In 1924, he was a real Favorite Son, a serious contender, though the convention's fear of the Klan made him once more only an obstructionist...
...nothing, perhaps a bit slow in making up his mind, which is not a bad fault. It makes the ordinary citizen rather tired to find people gunning for Coolidge when "Canivora" like big Bill Thompson are running at large. One a builder and a conservator, the other an obstructionist and destructionist...
When the Landtag again assembled to debate the bill, a phalanx of police guards protected the President and the Ministerial Bench. Vociferous but impotent the Communists introduced one obstructionist resolution after another. The Hohenzollern bill, finally debated amid groans and hisses, passed 258 to 37 with 65 abstentions...
...councilmen beamed. They had learned (unofficially through the Cleveland Press) that the Equitable Trust Co. of Manhattan with the concurrence of the Rockefellers might ask them for a franchise to build a $40,000,000 subway which eventually will go to the municipality free of cost. One Peter Witt, obstructionist, thinks the private enterprise "perfectly silly," insists the city should build the urgently needed tubes itself, after a plan which he first suggested three years ago but which has remained ignored...
...myth that Britons are a stolid and decorous race. The Government had announced its intention of jamming through a bill empowering it to cut down disbursements to the health insurance fund; and a certain arrogance manifested by Mr. Neville Chamberlain,* the Minister of Health, roused the Opposition leaders to obstructionist tactics which rapidly degenerated into low comedy...