Word: filibusterer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Knowing this, and angered by the Senate Chamber's emptiness, Senator Reed darkly hinted that he would filibuster. This news brought a frown to the tired forehead of the Senate's other Reed? slim, stooping young David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania, protégé of Andrew Mellon.
The looming "small navy" filibuster was abandoned but the "small navy" men declared they would fight to reduce the number of cruisers, to eliminate the time clause which provides that five cruisers a year be laid down annually for the next three years.
The opposition or "small navy" group is small in number, robust in spirit. A possible filibuster from this source is conceived to be the only obstacle to the bill's passage.
Inertia, self-interest and red tape have for years blockaded every effort to reapportion the seats in the House of Representatives, as required by the Constitution, in conformity with the present-day population of the U. S. House seats are still held on the basis of the 1910 Census. When...
Because the Congresses have refused to obey the Constitution and reapportion popular representation to fit the changes of U. S. population since 1910, many a State has more Representatives than it is proportionately entitled to and many another has less. Representative Fenn of Connecticut has long and often proposed a...