Word: filibusterer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Opening Salvos. Yet Sam Ervin's trial-by-jury issue has already come to dominate the civil rights fight, principally because the slogan can easily outrun the difficult and technical counter-explanation. It has so strengthened the Southern position that civil rights backers may find it impossible to...
Opposition is working along two lines. The first is to hold the bill in committee until a filibuster would kill it on the Senate floor. Every day's delay helps, since a crowded schedule at the end of the session will not leave time for Southern oratory to exhaust itself...
Civil Rights. Though Southern Senators have bottled up legislation for a month in James 0. Eastland's Judiciary Committee, a break is in sight. Last week Senate Minority Leader William Fife Knowland delivered a G.O.P. ultimatum: no out-of-town trips for judiciary members until civil rights reaches the...
Krishna Menon owes his rise to power primarily to the friendship of Jawaharlal Nehru, who stubbornly rejects all criticism of his protege as "mere jealousy," describes him as "the best U.N. diplomat since Andrei Vishinsky." But even Nehru's affection could not have transformed the cantankerous Menon into a...
Councilor Al Vellucci resumed his crusade against Harvard yesterday as he threatened to filibuster the University's request for an underground steampipe across Prescott St.