Word: filibusterer
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To newshawks who trooped into the White House two days later for the President's regular mid-week press conference, the progress of work relief was of small interest. What they and the nation wanted to know was what President Roosevelt was going to do about his House rebuff. That...
"Exhausted, Mr. President!" chorused the perspiring newshawks. The President droned on & on & on. Not until the 35-min. conference was almost over did he end his filibuster, neatly parry a utilities question with a line of verse.
Huey Long, badly frazzled, was ready to quit. Democratic oldsters of the Senate were also ready to trade him permission to march out with the honors of the filibuster if he would agree to a vote next day on the NRA resolution. When Senator Harrison went back to the rear...
Senators dozing on the cloakroom couches looked up to see Huey Long making a beeline for the men's room, knew his filibuster was over. In 15½ hours he had filled 85 pages of the Congressional Record at a cost of $4,500. While on his feet he...
More important last week than the passage of the resolution extending the remnants of NRA until April 1, 1936 was Senator Huey Long's filibuster against that measure. The filibuster resulted in Long's losing a fat wad of prestige, and the methods used to break his obstructionism...