Word: filibusterer
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Massachusetts. Last fortnight a filibuster blocked election of a President of the Senate, an official who traditionally administers the oath of office to the incoming Governor. After waiting a day, bluff James Michael Curley had himself sworn in by the Secretary of State. When the Senate finally chose its temporary...
President Roosevelt discovered last week that it was much easier to call Congress into special session in March than it was to send it home in June. Weeks ago he set June 10 as the day he wanted adjournment. June 10 came and went; Congress still sat and snarled. The...
To the farm bill Senator Wheeler from silver-producing Montana offered an amendment for 16-to-1 free coinage of the metal. Close on its heels trod Senator Frazier with an amendment for fiat money, Senator Connally for dollar devaluation, many another. The Democratic leadership, unable to stave off a...
Thus began a pathetic one-man filibuster against Repeal. In slow measured words Senator Sheppard recited the decade's doings at Geneva. Monotonously he read from old documents. Slowly he meandered down long columns of figures. His dronings drove Senators from the chamber, left Vice President Curtis suffering silently...
¶ Was threatened with a "taxpayer's filibuster" by Maryland's Tydings who demanded a 25% cut in all appropriations, as promised in the Democratic platform. Democratic leaders induced him to drop his fight on the formal promise that "appropriations shall be reduced at the earliest practicable time...