Word: filibusterer
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CIVIL RIGHTS. The hot civil rights question may come up on the first day. Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey is planning to call for a new set of rules outlawing the filibuster, the Southern Democrats' chief weapon in dry-docking civil rights legislation.
The Mason-Dixon line runs squarely down the center of the Republican civil right plank. We believe, say the Republicans, in "enacting federal legislation to further just and equitable treatment in the area of discriminatory employment practices." This takes care of the North. But, the Republicans go on, "Federal action...
¶ He said that, as President, "he could and would" use his influence to change the Senate's rules so that a majority (instead of two-thirds) of the membership could shut off a filibuster-and thus make possible passage of an FEPC law. Previously, he had expressed "doubts...
While Nixon may be guilty of Fuzzy-mindedness in regard to his campaign funds, and of a certain amount of ballyhoo in trying to clear himself, he is nevertheless morally honest, and certainly not reactionary. He is not McCarthy. (The CRIMSON's coverage of his Boston appearance was not only...
His record on domestic policy is not such a happy one. When the Republicans stampeded behind malevolent bills like Taft-Hartley and the McCarran Acts, the junior Senator from Massachusetts voted with them. When candidate Eisenhower took an ambivalent and recreant stand on McCarthyism, Lodge announced his support of the...