Word: obstruction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scandal inquiries a year ago which drove Messrs. Denby and Daugherty from the Cabinet, Gaston B. Means, had been on trial for several weeks in the Federal District Court in Manhattan. He and a lawyer as sociate, Colonel Thomas B. Felder, were on trial for conspiracy to obstruct justice. It was charged that they had benefited, to the sum of $65,000, taken from a number of men under indictment for misuse of the mails; by agreeing to prevent prosecution of the case. Instead the indicted men were convicted and made charges against Means and Felder. Ex-Attorney General Daugherty...
...leaving the lights on. Nothing definite has been decided upon as yet, but it is expected that an arrangement of some kind will be completed before long. In the meantime cars, if parked over night, should be lighted and placed in such a position that they will not obstruct traffic...
...first major speech-on the farm problem. He declared that 1,200,000 people had been forced to leave the farms by the Republican policy of deflation. He called the Fordney-McCumber Tariff "an offense to every consumer in the U. S.," and described it as "an act to obstruct our foreign commerce, to increase the prices of what the farmer buys and to reduce the prices of what he sells. ... I am here primarily to learn rather than to teach. ... I am not a dirt farmer nor a pictorial farmer." He recalled Mr. Dawes' suggestion...
Squirming Purple Worms Obstruct the Course of True Love
...Bang and Queen with English citizenry to the number of 100,000 assisted at the Grand National. Crowds clogged the mist-streaked course, restless with suspense and excitement. Sixteen jumps obstruct the Aintree Course, 14 of which must be twice crossed before the finish. Annual efforts are made by well-intentioned groups of the British public to reduce the number and the rigor of the hazards. At the 82nd Grand National only one horse finished without a fall...