Word: obstructionists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sharp warnings that Republicans in Congress must not adopt obstructionist tactics in dealing with social reforms and that the G.O.P. gains at the polls should be interpreted more as a protest vote against extreme New Deal proposals than a swing toward Republicanism, punctuated the outward air of harmony that prevailed...
...Count Dino Grandi in for a cozy, significant lunch. Afterward, Whitehall buzzed with rumors that His Majesty's Government were about to permit Generalissimo Francisco Franco to open throughout the United Kingdom consulates flying the crimson & gold flag of Rightist Spain. Same day Soviet Russia hastily abandoned the obstructionist tactics by which she has kept the London Committee for Spanish Non-intervention from taking steps to carry out the famed British "Scheme...
...puzzle in the Times, and his old-bachelor devotion to the faded girl's photograph on his mantelpiece. (She had married a dashing artist, mothered four children, died.) His boys were devoted to Mr. Donkin, but Marbledown's new Headmaster was not, considered him an old-fashioned obstructionist nearly ready for the pruning knife. All unaware of his danger, Mr. Donkin carried on, up holding the tyrannical dictates of the Head in public, in private shaking his wiser head. When his lost love's daughters descended on him for an indefinite visit, Mr. Donkin's position...
Advising opponents of the present democratic regime to cease obstructionist activities, Professor William Ripley, Harvard economist, expressed the opinion that the President's triumph in the recent election is attributable to the fact that he sensed the social unrest of the day, and by his actions convinced the country that he was willing to help remedy the defects of the old order...
...carefully thought out and wisely administered. Their minority pressure must be employed to insure care and thoroughness in the future. They must form a minority such as Jefferson envisaged in 1790 when he stated that a minority must be a check on the group in power, not an obstructionist block...