Word: filibusterer
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At midnight the Communist filibuster was resumed in a sullen atmosphere. But at week's end it looked as if the Reds had roared themselves out, and the government was ready to put through its anti-sabotage bill.
Square-jawed little James C. Davis of Georgia could hardly wait for the chaplain to finish the House's opening prayer. At the sound of the "Amen" he was on his feet demanding a quorum call. It was the opening gun in a new Dixiecrat filibuster designed to prevent...
Spoil the Broth. On one point the statement's drafters were firm. National Committeeman Werner Schroeder, who speaks for the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Bertie McCormick, wanted to abandon the bipartisan foreign policy, but he was briskly quashed. Massachusetts' Senator Henry Cabot Lodge fought vainly for a...
It surprised no one to find crusading Paul Douglas leading the attack on the Dixiecrats' filibuster over civil rights. But his choices have often been harder than that, as when John Bricker slyly added an anti-segregation amendment to the housing bill. Torn between two causes he believes in...
In the Senate the threat of filibuster hung over at least three measures: repeal of the federal tax on oleomargarine (by dairy state Senators); civil rights (by the Dixiecrats); a revised D.P. bill (by Nevada's one-man roadblock, Pat McCarran). In both Houses one of the warmest debates...