Word: filibusterer
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"Mr. President." "The Senator from Louisiana." The large gilt clock over the Vice President's chair stood at 12:17 p. m. as Huey Pierce Long rose at his front-row desk and took the Senate floor last week. Before the chamber was a resolution to keep the ghost...
The galleries roared. For another hour Huey Long rambled on but obviously he was getting nowhere. No Senator rose to help his filibuster. The Shriners were beginning to go out to dinner. Shortly after 5 o'clock Oklahoma's Senator Thomas made the point of no quorum. While...
It did not work. Nevada's McCarran, the only Senator who appeared to wish the filibuster to go on, obliged by demanding another quorum, but this time Huey Long did not dare leave the floor for fear of losing his speech-making prerogative. Besides, the galleries were filling up...
"We have Senators in this body who would filibuster for weeks against a two-year extension. They want to kill the NRA and would jump at the opportunity to delay action until after the date* on which the act automatically comes to an end."
Some newspaper editors who feel that their newshawks assigned to cover the White House are altogether too pliable in the dexterous hands of Franklin Roosevelt last week had a taste of the President's professional hospitality. Mr. Roosevelt set aside an evening for a heart-to-heart with the...