Word: obstructionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week U.N.'s General Assembly moved to create a couple of new states. By an overwhelming vote (48 to 1, with nine abstentions) the Assembly decided, after weeks of bickering and Soviet-bloc obstruction, that the former Italian colony of Libya (pop. 1,120,000) shall be independent...
Something Practical. Chatting with Firbank was hard sledding, because a nervous constriction of the throat reduced him to long spells of involuntary Trappism (during one such spell he spoke to only two people in two years). For the same reason, little food managed to make its way down into his...
Wearily and dispiritedly, Congress trudged toward adjournment. Up for debate was the liberalized Displaced Persons bill, which leaders in both parties were pledged to support. Blasted out of the Senate Judiciary Committee after nine months of dogged obstruction by Chairman Pat McCarran, the bill would remove the discriminatory provisions of...
Despite protestations to the contrary, the party has been and probably must continue to be preponderantly conservative in bias. This is necessary because of its present composition based on strength in the northeastern middle class and the agricultural heartland of the midwest. Furthermore, it seems likely that a majority of...
In the war-torn Yellow River valley, "China's Sorrow" threatened to burst the dikes held by both armies. The alarmed Red radio mixed propaganda with its pleading: "It is impossible to complete dike repair work because of constant Nationalist raids . . . We request Nationalist troops and air forces to...