Word: filibusterer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Signalman Jones had made the best speech in favor of the bill. It finally passed, 265-to-110. But the bill's chances of becoming law are poor. It may never be reported out of the Senate's Judiciary Committee. And the same Senate poll-taxers still stand...
On the outskirts of Pittsburgh, scattered among three Congressional districts, are labor votes which in 1940 were sufficient to elect Democratic Congressmen from all three districts. Fortnight ago, Governor Edward Martin signed a bill, passed by the legislature after an eight-day Democratic filibuster, which neatly amputated these Democratic areas...
Then Nevada's silver-haired, rancorous Pat McCarran, spokesman for the silver bloc, opened a filibuster against an Administration bill to permit the sale of Government-owned silver for commercial use at less than the pegged price. One day Pat McCarran read drowsily for four hours from ancient RFC...
Real American citizens endorse and encourage that courageous band of Senators in their filibuster fight to save our Republican form of Government, and bitterly resent such traitors to Democracy as Senators Barkley, Pepper, and their Communistic colleagues. They are the real impeders.
The past is black, and the future scarcely brighter. Ahead lies the overwhelming task of invading the continent of Europe. We still must take Tunis and Bizerte to make our African venture reap the profits for which it was designed. Japanese island forts like Truk must be cleaned out, all...