Word: filibusterer
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The court convened, and Mossadegh quickly went on the offensive, challenging the military tribunal's competence. Asked to identify himself, he cried, "I am the legal Premier of Iran!" And he soon launched into a filibuster that had everything in it but Huey Long's recipe for potlikker...
1. A 24-hour filibuster.
In a quiet conference outside the Senate chamber last week, Majority Leader Robert A. Taft and New Mexico's Clinton Anderson (whose ailing heart was beginning to hamper his leadership of the marathon-talking Democratic opposition) agreed that it was time to call a halt to the 21-day...
The "band of liberals," led by Alabama's Hill, New Mexico's Anderson, Minnesota's Humphrey and Illinois' Douglas, had filibustered since April Fools' Day to delay voting on the majority-favored Holland bill, which would grant the seaboard states title to offshore lands within...
Majority Leader Bob Taft agreed to suspend debate on tidelands, and allow a vote on federal rent controls. The Senate passed the House extension measure by a voice vote, then recessed-after hearing Taft's warning that round-the-clock sessions lay ahead if the filibuster continued much "longer...