Word: filibusterer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After two weeks of weary debate the Senate last week ratified (58 to 9) the London Naval Treaty. The nine dissenters were: Republicans Bingham, Hale, Johnson, Moses, Oddie, Pine, Robinson of Indiana; Democrats McKellar, Walsh of Massachusetts. Even they were glad to adjourn and go home. All relevant and many...
To be gagged was exactly what Senator Johnson and his followers most wanted from the majority. Republican Leader Watson had in his desk a petition signed by 35 Senators to invoke cloture and thus kill the filibuster. But Senator Watson was too good a tactician to martyrize Senator Johnson and...
President Hoover was worried last week about the London Naval Treaty. The special session of the Senate he had called against the advice of Republican leaders at the Capitol was not speeding the instrument toward ratification as swiftly and smoothly as he had anticipated. Senators opposing the Treaty had jockeyed...
When Senator Hiram Johnson kept calling more and more naval officers before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to testify against the London Treaty, President Hoover last week began to suspect a subtle filibuster was in progress to block ratification of the Pact at this session. The President has gained enough...
The threat of a Democrat filibuster against the Senate's final acceptance of a patchwork measure loomed when Mississippi's Senator Pat Harrison exclaimed: "It'll be a long time before you get this Bill. I'd want nothing better than the responsibility for killing this legislation."