Word: filibusterer
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But though Russia's Congress did its year's work in less time than it takes for a minor Senate filibuster, the meeting was significant. For the long-delayed budget figures, when finally unveiled, showed that the Soviet Union was converting steadily from war to preparedness. The armed...
Few long-range solutions to the nation's many problems were offered. Congress did pass the Case antistrike bill, but Harry Truman vetoed it. The Senate saved the country from one piece of ill-advised legislation when it killed the President's plan to draft strikers into the...
Last week he had an extraordinary session with his Administration leaders in Congress. The price bill they brought him -after the fizzle of Senator "Pappy" O'Daniel's eight-hour filibuster-was, by their own admission, a dud but they agreed: it was the best that could be...
In town after sun-baked town crowds gathered, listened with hot-eyed intentness, and cheered The Man. Even planters in the rich Delta country who had always opposed him would vote for him this time. They thought him a knave but they knew he would filibuster to death any Congressional...
Delaying Action. In the Senate, there were furious backstage maneuvers. Ohio's Republican Robert Taft had already cried the first "Halt!" to the President's whip-cracking proposal (TIME, June 3). Belatedly, Democrats set to work. Florida's Claude Pepper, ambitious to be the leader of Franklin...