Word: filibusterer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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¶One bill the President did not sign was the Third Deficiency Appropriation, carrying $93.000,000, which Senator Long's filibuster had killed the last day of the Session. Like many a housewife who keeps her grocery money in one purse, her clothes money in another, her amusement money...
Early last week, as Congress surged toward adjournment, Candid Cameraman Thomas D. McAvoy of Washington made his way quietly into a Senate Gallery, sat down behind two visitors. On the Senate floor below, Louisiana's Long was in the midst of his filibuster which marked the closing hours of...
It was obvious that the Senator intended to filibuster until midnight for which adjournment was set. Half a dozen Senators protested. Washington's Schwellenbach, ringleader of the "freshman" group who made the Kingfish toe the mark during his previous filibuster (TIME., June 24), sat down behind him to harry...
Leaping to their feet to check the adjournment rush, the Senate peacemen proclaimed themselves ready to filibuster indefinitely until neutrality legislation should be brought to a vote. Not for a moment did anyone believe they were bluffing. Only Missouri's Clark, A. E. F. colonel and a founder of...
Businessmen who want to avoid unwelcome callers announce that they are busy, can see no one who has not an appointment. The U. S. Senate has a better system. By refusing to tear off the top sheet on its legislative appointment pad, it can make one day last indefinitely, keep...