Word: obstructionism
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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It was after 4 o'clock in the morning and a light snow was falling, ruddy in the red glow of the obstruction lights. Off to the east, three miles away, the radio operator on the roof of the municipal airport could see the lights of Salt Lake City...
"In 1912," says Dr. Young, "a big, burly man with a huge head and a strong face appeared at my office . . . diamonds sparkled from his vest, watch chain, cuff links, and the head of his cane." He was James Buchanan ("Diamond Jim") Brady. Among his imposing list of ailments: "Bright...
Died. WPAdministrator Francis Clark ("Pink") Harrington, 53, onetime Colonel of Army Engineers; week after an operation for an intestinal obstruction; in New London, Conn.; with Harry Hopkins at his bedside.
Said the President: "This progress of the last seven years has been mighty difficult. It has been beset by obstruction and by bitter propaganda from certain minority groups. . . . You will remember that kind of opposition in the campaign of four years ago [from] . . . certain employers, politicians and newspapers-all of...
For the past three years, as "Edward H. Eggleston" he lived in Philadelphia's Temple University Hospital, ailing from arthritis, under treatment by famed Dr. Chevalier Jackson for a throat obstruction. Cities Service's affairs more & more fell into the capable hands of its husky First Vice President...