Word: filibusterer
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The House was dog-tired at the end of the hardest week of the session. It was ready for adjournment at midafternoon, and voted it. But over at the other end of the Capitol, West Virginia's stripling Senator Rush Dew Holt had led-strangely enough, since it was...
That the measure should pass the House would not be surprising, for this particular pressure group is well-organized and draws its strength from two sources--the farmers and the inflationists. It should, at least, be blocked in the Senate, although the possible machinations of a wearisome filibuster by a...
In some quarters it was felt that McLaughlin's testimony was of more damage than aid to the cause of suppression of the Oath. In adopting filibuster tactics the Law professor was repeatedly called to order by the chair for diverging from the subject of the bill.
In the subsequent course of debate (see p. 22) the Prime Minister's party whips kept his Conservative henchmen on their feet talking about foreign affairs hour after hour, this tactic crowding Labor M. P.'s out of all adequate opportunity to express their views. It amounted, as...
Men look smaller when dead, but Huey Long, who developed the traditional figure of the American backwoods demagogue to its fullest stature, was not likely to shrink in the estimates of his contemporaries for some time to come. Twenty years ago but a traveling salesman, a peddler of baking powder...