Word: obstructions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began soon after Prime Minister Strydom, who is determined that nothing shall stand in the way of all-Boer rule of South Africa, rammed through his law breaking the Senate's power to obstruct him. Every day all day, four black-sashed women stood gravely outside the government buildings in Pretoria. They were members of the Women's Defense of the Constitution League. In the two months since, the few have grown to 20,000 members in 200 towns. Whenever a Minister arrived at a public ceremony, 40 or 50 women gathered and formed a silent gauntlet. When...
...interest that Dean Griswold does not even suggest that his professor's fear is reasonable, and indirectly suggests that not fear of prosecution, but an affirmative desire to obstruct the public's right to his evidence, constitutes the true motive for his invocation of the privilege...
Taylor lays considerable emphasis on the question of the scope of committee power and argues that "Personal compunctions cannot be permitted to obstruct valid official inquiries, but they are entitled to weight in the scales when legal authority is lacking." Even then, Taylor finds an apparent obligation on the part of witnesses to deliver information about others to authorized government officials, especially where considerations of national security may be involved...
...government," said one of the U.S. officials anxiously trying to help, "is stuck together by Scotch tape, bits of string and putty.") The French, striving to maintain by fair means and by sly means a remnant of influence and profit in the land they have exploited for seven decades, obstruct him with the wily rearguard maneuvers of colonialism...
...Taft might have provided that kind of leadership. Without it the powerful senior Republicans, particularly in the Senate, still run things to suit their own conveniences. The Old Guard Republican leaders do not seem to be trying to take over the party. Rather, they snipe or obstruct without any apparent sense of party responsibility or direction. Minority Leader Bill Knowland, New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, Illinois' Everett Dirksen, Ohio's John Bricker and Colorado's Eugene Millikin virtually ignore the President as a leader of Congress. He makes no effort to punish them for so doing...