Word: dixiecratism
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With these words, Johnston effectively established the fact that, though not a Dixiecrat like Thurmond, he was just as anti-Negro. Johnston also made it clear that he hated Harry Truman just as much, only he was playing it smarter: by being a Democrat he could sabotage the President better from the inside...
...worn and angry mood, was more waspish than rational. Minnesota's bouncy Hubert Humphrey called the South's arguments "blasphemy," and twice had to take his seat for defying senatorial decorum. Senators swapped insults and personal attacks. Lucas finally moved in to shut off the Dixiecrat filibuster by cloture, not in order to get a vote on FEPC itself but just to get to the first step: a vote on a motion to bring the bill to the floor...
...bill's bitter opponents launched a campaign for adjournment which would have automatically kept the measure off the floor for many more months. It was 8:25 by the time the maneuver-and Dixiecrat hopes of avoiding consideration of FEPC-was beaten by a vote of 179 to 107. Then Pennsylvania's bald, stocky Republican Congressman Samuel K. Mc-Connell attacked from the flank, introduced a substitute FEPC bill which included none of the Administration provisions for enforcement...
Square-jawed little James C. Davis of Georgia could hardly wait for the chaplain to finish the House's opening prayer. At the sound of the "Amen" he was on his feet demanding a quorum call. It was the opening gun in a new Dixiecrat filibuster designed to prevent the FEPC bill from coming to the floor under the special rules of "Calendar Wednesday." Through most of the session the swinging doors to the chamber banged back & forth with metronomic regularity as the members scurried to answer eight different roll calls. Each swallowed up about 40 minutes...
...successful wildcatter, Cullen has given away more money than most men dream of. In one day, he gave away oil properties potentially worth $160 million to set up a Rockefelle-like foundation, has given other millions to hospitals, schools, and the municipal University of Houston. A crotchety all-out Dixiecrat, he has feuded with Jesse Jones, snapping: "Jones has been away from here for the last 25 to 30 years and has come back to Houston and decided, with the influence of ... a bunch of New York Jews, to run our city...