Word: obstructionists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House went to work on amendments this week, there was no doubt that the interim aid bill would pass, eventually-in just about the shape the Senate had already approved. Meanwhile, the bitterest congressional foes of Communism seemed curiously determined to play the obstructionist role which would best suit the Communist game...
...This is regrettable. But what is the alternative? Refrain from establishing an international government and thereby deprive ourselves of a desperately needed means of saving peace and democracy? That is too high a price to pay for Russia's formal, obstructionist membership...
...Highness the Maharaja of Bikaner. Bikaner, an expert shot who has decked his halls with heads and skins of 75 species of game shot in twelve countries, has decided that the best way to save his own skin is to team up with the Congress Party. Last week, when obstructionist highnesses were plugging for a united stand against the anti-princely Congress, Bikaner dramatically walked out, later announced that he was sending his representative to sit in the Constituent Assembly when it next meets, on April 28. By session's end, eleven others had joined...
...battle for T.W.A. had gone far enough. Company President Jack Frye finally realized that T.W.A. could not get the money it needed without the cooperation of majority stockholder Howard Hughes. And headstrong Howard Hughes realized that he could not try CAB's patience much longer with his obstructionist tactics...
...elect a Congress which is in sympathy with the 1944 Democratic platform. Said he: "I don't see how any voter who thinks at all could vote for the Reece-Taft-Crawford* program. The difficulties with which we are now faced are due in part to the obstructionist tactics of those gentlemen...