Word: anti
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...filibusters by cloture, only four times (and not since 1927, on a filibuster against creation of a bureau of customs and bureau of prohibition) have the attempts been successful. But last week, for the first time, the Senate got what appeared to be a generally reasonable and workable anti-filibuster rule...
...historic measure of Texan Johnson's genius for maneuver that 16 moderate Southern and border-state Senators joined him in voting for strengthening the Senate's anti-filibuster rule. And Compromiser Johnson was by no means guilty of overstatement when he said, just before the lopsided final vote: "We are perfecting our unity. We are maintaining reason...
Members of the Ivy League and six other Eastern schools have recently registered opposition to the anti-subversion provision of the National Defense Education Act. The regulation in question would require all recipients of federal stipends under the act to disclaim in writing any belief in "subversive movements...
...history of America. On the Right there were people like Richard Whitney of the Stock Exchange, more recently of Sing Sing; like Lewis Douglas, in 1952 an Eisenhower Republican; J. P. Morgan, Jr.; Raymond Moley who can now be found on the inside back page of Newsweek; an early anti-communist of the Dies-McCarthy school named William A. Wirt; plus Father Coughlin, Col. Lindbergh, Bernard Baruch, and a host of others. On the Left there were Harry Hopkins, Jesse Jones, Leon Henderson, Ben Cohen, Tommy Corcoran, Henry Wallace, and John L. Lewis. These are the people whom Schlesinger brings...
...because the two diplomats represented "phantom" governments that are no longer recognized by other countries accredited to the Holy See. That statement itself was enough for old Vatican hands to sense a new atmosphere; under Pius XII, who made a point of keeping the Polish and Lithuanian envoys as anti-Communist symbols, there had not been any reference to phantoms...