Word: filibusterer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Welcker pinch hit for Owen Brewster, Republican Senator from Maine, who was kept from his scheduled speech at the Forum by the Senate filibuster debate. Seymour Harris '20, professor of Economics, served as moderator.
The Fair Deal has run into a strong foul wind from Dixie. The noisome success of the filibuster means not only the postponement of civil rights legislation, but a severe loss in prestige for Truman Democrats. Perhaps more important, the fears that Senate Torics on both sides of the Mason...
Of the 46 Senators who voted down Vice-President Barkley's anti-filibuster ruling on Friday, exactly half were Republicans. Most of the GOP bloc was from the conservative Mid-West, led by Arthur Vandenberg. The issue, as Vandenberg put it, was not civil rights. The Republicans indeed clasped these...
It is difficult to disagree with anyone who claims that the means do not justify the end. But Senator Vandenberg has clouded the argument by his appeal for cricket. When the rule was adopted in 1917, its purpose was to allow two-thirds of the Senate to prevent a filibuster...
At week's end, the Labor Committee was ready with the bill to repeal the Taft-Hartley Act. Like the filibuster battle, the measure reflected the Administration's stubborn scorn of compromise. After 3½ weeks of hearings and haggling, New Dealing Chairman Elbert D. Thomas reported it...