Word: filibusterer
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One reason for the so-called "situs" bill's failure to clear Adam Clayton Powell's Education and Labor Committee is that it would chiefly benefit the construction trades unions, which have been notoriously reluctant to admit Negroes. In addition, though the bill has more than enough votes...
The growth and complexity of 20th century America seemed to require ever more powerful and centralized administration, and Theodore Roosevelt had already shaken the Senate by doing something nearly unheard-of-he presented his own program, the Square Deal. Following Roosevelt's example, Wilson dared officially to present "Administration...
Though he had a virus ailment, a touch of pneumonia and a 100.2° temperature, Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield left his bed at Bethesda Naval Hospital, bundled up against a chill wind, and was chauffeured to the Capitol. Mansfield had made sure in advance that other Administration stalwarts would...
Pat McNamara, hospitalized for a thyroid ailment, was the only absentee- the Administration needed 66 votes to close down Dirksen's filibuster. It remained for Hubert Humphrey, president of the Senate, to announce how far short of the mark the Administration had fallen. "On this vote," boomed Humphrey when...
It was 10:50 p.m. last Monday, and a weary Cambridge council was wading through its 17th hour of hearings on the dismissal of city manager John J. Curry '19. Councillor Edward A. Crane '35, the four-time mayor and Curry's fiercest defender, rose from his seat to speak...