Word: filibusterer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the rank and file backing him up, and with other unions contributing as rarely before to his strike kitty, McDonald could refuse even to discuss revision of 2-B at the bargaining table. Result: total deadlock. Last fortnight, denouncing the negotiations as a "farcical filibuster," McDonald walked out.
"We are going home. This farcical filibuster has ended." So said United Steelworkers' President David J. McDonald last week as he and his aides broke off Manhattan negotiations with management on the eleven-week-old steel strike, left for Pittsburgh. Said McDonald: "The industry has not offered one cent...
Texas' Johnson, the adroit, trend-sensing Senate Majority Leader, started the session by delivering his own "State of the Union" message to fellow Democrats, pushed a liberal-spending, twelve-point program (e.g., "bold" housing program, depressed areas bill) that included several items clearly beyond his legislative role and inside...
I¶n the Senate, tacked to the foreign-aid appropriation a bipartisan rider that was the session's only serious civil rights move by either party: a two-year extension of the President's Civil Rights Commission. Result of the rider: a Saturday night filibuster by Southern...
For the first rich weeks of the 86th Congress, unfolding the morning newspaper was nothing but pleasure for Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson. Texan Johnson's weighty advice to the Administration on budget and defense policies, and his considerable success in steering the Senate to spectacular compromise on...