Word: filibusterer
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From the start at San Francisco, the Russians left no doubt that they were out to wreck or delay the peace conference. Even before Conference President Dean Acheson finished his opening remarks from the stage of the gilt and red plush Opera House, Andrei Gromyko was demanding to be heard...
It was Minnesota's fast-talking Hubert Humphrey, not yet a Senator, who insisted that a stout civil-rights plank-including an FEPC-be written into the Democratic Party's 1948 platform. The results were awesome: the Dixiecrats walked out of the convention, the party split, and that...
Throat Trouble. In somewhat the same spirit, Senator George Malone of Nevada (where legalized gambling is a big revenue-producer) waged a one-man fight against a bill prohibiting interstate shipment of slot machines. He had defeated the bill once last September with an eleven-hour, one-man filibuster, and...
Onstage. In such aimless chantings Congress did not get much work done. Dixiecrats successfully carried off a filibuster which killed the Alaska and Hawaii statehood bills for this session. The bills had been at the top of Mr. Truman's legislative list for the lame-duck session.
If we had waited for action by the United Nations, we would have faced the possibility of a prolonged filibuster in the General Assembly or an outright veto in the Security Council. The Soviet delegation has often shown its readiness to use both of these tacties; it is doing so...