Word: obstructionists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Capitol Hill itself, there was another new team. Illinois Republican Everett Dirksen succeeded California's obstructionist William Fife Knowland as Senate Republican leader, and Knowland had been as inept a leader as was ever inflicted upon a President. In the House, Indiana's Charles Halleck, with White House blessings, ousted Massachusetts' aging Joe Martin as Minority leader, soon proved himself a whiplashing, gut-fighting leader who would go down the line for the Administration...
...closer together than at any other time during the Eisenhower Administration. As never before. Congressmen are informed about Administration aims, and the President gets an accurate and detailed picture of congressional sentiment. Under Halleck's predecessor. Massachusetts' doughty old (74) Joe Martin, and the Senate's obstructionist G.O.P. Leader William Knowland, it hardly seemed possible for Ike to keep his congressional fences in good or der. This year, with Halleck, and with Illinois' Everett Dirksen replacing Knowland in the Senate, the Republicans in the White House and on Capitol Hill work as an effective team...
Being interested in the problems of disarmament, I decided to attend the meeting this evening of the Committee on Disarmament and became, accidentlly, a witness of the obstructionist tactics which were used to destroy the Committee at that meeting. The events of that meeting were not only a disgrace to Harvard, they indicated an actual threat to the right of Harvard and Radcliffe students to form organizations organizations or to meet freely for the discussion of whatever subjects they may choose. In view of the fact that similar obstructionists tactics were tried during the formation of the Socialist Club...
...methods used were frightening and irresponsible. The obstructionist actions had obviously been well planned; and they had been worked out over a long period of time as could easily be seen from the infamous way in which the chairman himself had been involved. The way in which this serious study group was broken up in what can only be described as a type of "mob" violence, on however limited a scale, is a very black mark against almost any student body, in continuance of their liberal tradition, will themselves respond to this threat and will prevent a recurrence of tonight...
...Amon Horne '60 and Robert B. Shapiro '59, and Jeremy J. Shapiro '61 failed to get even a name list of all those interested. The major clauses of the constitution which drew criticism were those concerning the powers of the five-man executive committee, and provisos to evict possible "obstructionist" members, many of whom did attend the club's first meeting...