Word: filibusterer
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¶ Ended a six-week filibuster on the Anti-Lynching bill, first defeating (for the second time) a motion for cloture, then voting 58-10-22 to lay the bill aside.
3. The filibuster in the Senate throughout the first week of the special session was staged to prevent passage of the (1 wages and hours, 2 housing, 3 farm, 4 antilynching, 5 tax-revision) bill.
Accordingly, last week the anti-lynching filibuster was interrupted to allow the Senate to pass its first real piece of business this session-a bill to amend the 1934 Housing Act. Mortgages were to be guaranteed up to 90%, interest was reduced to 5% and building of multiple dwellings for...
"When the Roman Forum fell, freedom fell!" roared Texas' old Tom Connally at his colleagues last week. The Senate was considering a petition to shut off, by invoking cloture, the filibuster that Senator Connally and his Southern friends had carried on for 17 days against the Wagner-Van Nuys...
That was exactly what Filibusterer Connally had counted on. Three days later New York's Robert Wagner took the hint, prepared to sidetrack his Anti-Lynching Bill by bringing in the waiting conference report on his Wagner-Steagall Housing Amendment. When that is disposed of, the conference report on the Farm Bill will also be "privileged" over the Anti-Lynching Bill, keeping it off the floor until its sponsors can gracefully withdraw. Thus last week the legislation that the South, by hook, crook, or filibuster, has throttled in Congress for 35 years seemed to be throttled once more...