Word: filibusterer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The 21 Republican State Senators of Rhode Island who fled their state following a Democratic filibuster and a literal gas attack (TIME, June 30) were discovered just over the border at Rutland, Mass. They fled, according to their own account, in fear for their lives. One heroic Republican remained behind...
¶The President went to the Capitol at 6:00 p. m. on the day Congress closed. He waited in the President's room, attended by the entire Cabinet except Messrs. Hoover and Davis, ready to consider and sign any last-minute bills that were passed. The Senate chose...
It is predicted that the proposed Amendment will pass promptly in the House with the necessary two-thirds majority. In the Senate, there may well be considerable delay and some of the staunch state-righters-Caraway, Overman, Stanley-may try to filibuster the measure out of the session.
Merit Rewarded. That Fiume is now Italian soil is due to Gabriele d'Annunzio, poet, airman, filibuster, whose expedition in 1919 seized the little city at the head of the Adriatic and held it against all comers until driven out by Italian bayonets in 1920.
Missouri is not alone in its glory. The last minute filibuster must have filled page after page with brilliant irrelevance. Instead of a mere handbook for English 10, the Record might well be adopted as a general textbook and reference compendium for all academic courses. It serves for a poultry...