Word: filibusterer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Our union had voted that all officers should take a non-communist affidavit. This was not a meddling 80th Congress but the rank and file of our 14,000 members in several states. The aforementioned officers refused, so we had to summon a council. Despite 81/2 hours of filibuster by...
The idea, of course, was to put Northern Democrats on the spot if they helped defeat the amendment, to stir up a Southern filibuster against the bill if the amendment passed. When Illinois' Douglas tried to head off the maneuver, Republican Minority Leader Kenneth Wherry moved in with a...
Deal on the Floor. Charging in from opposite directions, Ohio's Taft wanted to cut out the $12.5 million "outhouse fund" for submarginal farms, and North Dakota's maverick Republican William Langer wanted to double it. Langer threatened to filibuster all night. As he talked, Democratic leaders huddled...
By the seventh day of debate the Senate had taken on all the rash-marks of a baby filibuster. But this time the opposition could not muster the votes. At week's end 23 Republicans lined up behind Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg to help 45 Democrats defeat a...
Where It Hurt. There was no doubt that from now on the coalition would be an imposing force in the Senate. Last week, having won on filibuster and civil rights, it also kicked Harry Truman where it always hurts him most-in a matter involving his friendships. The President had...