Word: filibusterer
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71. Meanwhile, hundreds of exiles were reported gathering in Cuba for a filibuster against the dictatorship of President Trujillo of:
Senator Vandenberg warned the President of the overoptimism of this timetable. He pointed out that the President had asked for aid to Greece and Turkey by last April 1, had actually got it from Congress by July 25. The three weeks between Dec. 1 and Christmas, Senator Vandenberg said, did...
Some Cubans talked even more frankly. Senator "Eddie" Chibás charged that President Grau San Martin and his Army chief had double-crossed the expeditionaries. Certainly Cuba's Government-and Venezuela's and Guatemala's-had originally backed the filibuster. Last summer the invaders learned military...
For success, the expedition also got too much advance publicity. Then Trujillo threatened to protest to the U.N., and the U.S. State Department passed the word that it was against the whole scheme. Finally, Cuban Army Boss Genovevo, who had opposed the filibuster from the start, seized much of the...
Congressman John Elliott Ranlcin of Mississippi, who hopes to succeed his late, filibustering Tweedledee, Theodore Bilbo, in the Senate, let go a memorable tweedledum as he promised to carry on the filibustering. "A filibuster is legitimate," said he, "when it is legitimate."