Word: filibusterer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Representing their electorates last week were three Senators who will never know what it is like to fidget through a filibuster. Reason: they were elected to fill vacancies from November 9 through January 2, and the Senate will not sit until January 3.
¶ Instead of the old style Negro lobbyist content to work behind the scenes, U.S. Negroes now have a Washington representative as bold, adroit and effective as any of the white breed. He is Secretary Walter Francis White of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Last January...
Veteran Producer David Wark Griffith's 23-year-old The Birth of a Nation is the most famous motion picture ever made. When the film was first released in 1915, its vindictive story of Reconstruction race hatred and avenging Klansmen roused considerable passion. Manhattan Negroes secured the elimination of...
Short on comedy, The Bourbons Got the Blues got its chief bounce from a satiric ballet summarizing the Senate filibuster against the Anti-Lynching Bill. Blaring out, through a loudspeaker, verbatim excerpts from the speeches of Senator Ellender and Bilbo, prancing about in a good deal of pantomimic horseplay, Filibuster...
43-to-39. To Montana's Burton Wheeler, anything that looks like a grab for Presidential power is profoundly disturbing. Wheeler scheme for drawing the teeth of the Reorganization Plan was an amendment whereby Presidential changes, under Title 1, needed Congressional approval to be effective-thereby throwing the balance...