Word: filibusterer
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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.
A Hold is Broken In the Senate cloakrooms last week, the Vice President of the U.S. was jovially hailed by buoyant liberals and flailed by moody Southerners as "Judge Nixon." The reason: by one thunderstriking interpretation from the chair, Richard Nixon had tagged the discomfiting word "unconstitutional" to the much...
When the Middle East debate ends, and the Senate turns to other legislation, there should be enough sympathetic votes to force the bill out of the Judiciary Committee, lorded over by Chairman James 0. Eastland of Mississippi. And when some 20 diehard Southern Senators attempt to talk the bill to...
Impending Defeat. Beyond civil rights and its reefs, there waits the prospect of a second losing battle for the South. Stung by "Judge" Nixon's interpretation. Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and Minority Leader William Knowland last week co-sponsored a bill to 1) amend the provision of Rule XXII...
The Unpushable. Taft was all too right. Nobody could push Bill around and, elected majority leader in his own right after Taft's death, Knowland soon ran into trouble trying to push the unpushable Senate around. In his rush to political power, Knowland had learned how to handle issues...