Word: filibusterer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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His white eyebrows crinkled with disgust, John Nance Garner one day last week threw down the magazine he had been reading, summoned Indiana's Sherman Minton to take the chair, stalked deliberately out of the U. S. Senate. Senator Minton settled down with a copy of Many Laughs For...
To Majority Leader Alben Barkley the filibuster was not the most serious Southern reaction to his allowing an anti-lynching bill to reach the Senate floor. Because he faces a Senatorial primary in Kentucky next August he left Washington and the filibuster to attend a testimonial banquet in his honor...
Lobbying-When James Weldon Johnson retired to teach literature at Fisk University in 1930, Walter White succeeded to his $5,000 job and a Federal anti-lynching law officially became Item No. 1 on the N. A. A. C. P. schedule. The White argument, ceaselessly drummed into Negroes and white...
On paper the 73 supporters of the Anti-Lynching Bill controlled nine more votes than the two-thirds required to invoke cloture and end the filibuster, but the filibuster nevertheless went on. Alert Walter White made increasingly anxious trips downstairs to confer with Senators in the reception room. One of...
The odds in favor of the White-Wagner-Van Nuys Anti-Lynching Bill decreased steadily last week, for time works with a filibuster. One serious blow was the refusal of Republican Leader Charles McNary, a master of minority strategy, to vote for night sessions or cloture so long as he...