Word: filibusterer
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To many in the audience, the film seemed a bit like a 2¼-hour filibuster in black and white. But there were some highlights, notable among them the performance of Charles Laughton as South Carolina's Senator Seab Cooley-in accents learned from careful study of the drawl...
Thurmond left the Governor's mansion in 1951 and opened a private law practice in Aiken, S.C. In 1954 he staged a write-in campaign for the Senate seat of Burnet Maybank, who had died between the primary and general elections. Thurmond defeated a candidate who had been handpicked...
Alabama's population is decreasing, and it was the legislature's painful duty to reapportion the state into eight congressional districts instead of nine. Legislators from the industrial areas of north Alabama argued that the cut should come from the rural south. But southern politicians, who dominate the...
...Robertson, Governor John Patterson's executive secretary, got into an argument with a house member, angrily called him an s.o.b. The ensuing fistfight was broken up by Public Safety Director Floyd Mann. While state troopers moved into the chambers to prevent other fights, the filibuster droned on. Filibusterers even refused to sit down long enough for the legislature to pass necessary last minute appropriations bills. When the marathon ended after a record 96 hours, the session was over-and no money had been appropriated for the operation of state agencies after Sept...
The Compulsion. The individualism of William Proxmire has become more and more apparent in the three years since he took over the seat once held by the late Joe McCarthy. At first Proxmire tried valiantly to be a model freshman, voting right and listening to his seniors speak. But the...