Word: filibusterer
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¶ Urged Congress not to let argument over an anti-segregation amendment hold up passage of the $1.6 billion, four-year school-construction bill on the grounds that "the need of the American children for schools is today" and that "the Supreme Court in reaching its [antisegregation] decision . . . specifically provided...
The plan, however, has several weak aspects. The most obvious drawback is the size of the allocation, hardly enough to fulfill Eisenhower's wishful thought that the bill will meet "current and future needs." Whether the Administration's program or Democratic Congressman Kelly's proposal for $400,000,000 a...
When Oregon's waggy-tongued Wayne Morse set a 22-hour, 26-minute filibuster record in the U.S. Senate in April 1953, politicians and nonpoliticians hoped that a limit had been reached. But last week a new record was set, naturally enough, in Texas. Arguing for an amendment to...
Such hot talk, plus a warm little war and a cold-blooded assassination carried the six small nations of Central America into 1955 with characteristic gusto. In countless small but deadly revolutions, from the days of the smoothbore musket through the time of the machine-gunning fighter plane, they have...
After Old Nick: Hubert. The night before the Democrats held their official caucus, 19 New-Fair Deal Senators, most of them in a mood to stir up trouble, met with New York's Herbert Lehman. Agenda: discussion of an anti-filibuster change in the Senate rules. A fight on...