Word: filibusterer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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¶ Squelched a one-man filibuster by Louisiana's obstreperous Long.
Died. Harry Wright Rogers, 36, pioneer pilot, oldtime airline operator; of a jugular gash received in his first serious crash in 17 years of spectacular flying: near the Glenn Curtiss Airport (of which he was operations manager), Long Island. Died. Mrs. Winifred Finlay Fosdick, wife of Lawyer Raymond Elaine Fosdick...
¶ Bowed to a filibuster against a bill by Florida's Owen to establish a national park in the Everglades.
They were well drilled. One party set up the guns, another rushed to the out skirts of the town and cut telephone and telegraph wires. There was no one to oppose them but a few Rural Guards. A burst of machine gun fire sent these scampering. The rest of the...
Near the city of Cienfuegos a Federal patrol swooped on a little drugstore and dragged out one more leader of the revolution from his burrow beneath the counter. He was Col. Aurelio Hevia, a successor to the imprisoned General Mario Menocal. U. S. Ambassador Harry Frank Guggenheim notified the State...