Word: filibusterer
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Next day, speaking before the New York State Democratic Convention, the Democratic candidate made a careful pitch to one of the nation's largest "specialinterest" groups-its Negro voters. He was "favorably impressed," said Stevenson, by a proposed bill which would create a federal Fair Employment Practices Commission, but...
Romantic Filibuster. The Prairie Giant fell with a crash that reverberated through the social circles of the capital. Summoning all his demagogue's dialectic and caucus cunning, Senator Ratcliffe sets out to filibuster Mrs. Lee out of her heart, her hand and her income. As the senatorial courtship wheezes...
Kurt Schumacher's German Socialists held up passage of the bill for three days, while they held the floor for 25 hours in the longest filibuster in the short history of the new Bonn Republic. The bill, they complained, is "reactionary" because it gives the workers only one-third...
"Alben gets his way," said a fellow Kentuckian, "but he does it so you never feel it hurt." In 1949, while Barkley was presiding over the Senate, he ruled against his Southern friends in an attempt to cut off a Southern filibuster. But he lost not a friend thereby. He...
After supporting much of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, Russell broke sharply with the Truman Administration, supported the Taft-Hartley law, opposed the Brannan farm plan. On civil rights, he has followed the Southern line without deviation, defending segregation, the filibuster and the poll tax, opposing FEPC. Arguing that...