Word: filibusterer
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Administration Senators last week threatened a filibuster to keep the Logan-Walter Bill from passing, threatened (if that failed) to tack an anti-lynching amendment on to it, which would force Southern Senators to filibuster. Unless Congress changes its mind and adjourns, the last days of one of the longest...
> Approved in the Judiciary Committee, by a vote of 11-to-4, the dynamite-loaded Anti-Lynching Bill. If it gets to the Senate floor, the bill would set off a filibuster that would blow all other business out the door.
Finale. Despairing of victory, unable to dent Mr. Hatch's annoying highmindedness, griped at Mahout McNary's now open grins, New Dealers began a mild filibuster. With the Senate geared to take up farm appropriations and the reciprocal trade agreements, plan was to talk the Hatch Bill into...
5. House filibuster
At debate's end 123 Democrats voted with eight Republicans against antilynching. For the bill were 109 Democrats, 140 Republicans, two Wisconsin Progressives, one New York Laborite - enough to pass Joe Gavagan's bill along to a sure filibuster in the Senate.