Word: filibusterer
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Up for debate was a bill to extend federal rent control (due to expire June 30) for six more months, with a second six-month extension for those cities that wanted it. Administration leaders were pushing the bill hard for good political reasons-29 million people still living under rent...
Neither Daddy nor Mammy. The Senate had approached the matter grudgingly. Majority Leader Scott Lucas, doggedly vowing to make good on Harry Truman's civil rights program, had made FEPC the next order of business, had then let an easygoing Southern filibuster jog along for most of two weeks...
But the Senate, in a worn and angry mood, was more waspish than rational. Minnesota's bouncy Hubert Humphrey called the South's arguments "blasphemy," and twice had to take his seat for defying senatorial decorum. Senators swapped insults and personal attacks. Lucas finally moved in to shut...
For a Little, Nasty Vote. Meanwhile the Senate was busy chewing over the President's FEPC bill, which would impose penalties on employers who discriminate against their workers on account of race or religion. Faithful Majority Leader Scott Lucas had insisted on making it the next order of business...
Patrick A. (Pat) McCarran, Democrat from Nevada, 73, pompous, vindictive and power-grabbing-a sort of McKellar with shoes on. Working hand in glove with McKellar, he tied the 81st Congress' appropriations machinery in knots, staged a one-man committee filibuster against a liberalized bill to admit D.P.s to...