Word: filibusterer
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The Swing-Johnson bill has passed the House. Arizona's two Senators, Ashurst and Hayden, prevented its passing the Senate only by a most heroic filibuster in the closing hours of last session. This session the bill has prime place on the Senate's calendar and Arizonans do...
In the Skupshtina or Parliament of Jugoslavia at Belgrade last week the leader of the Opposition, famed Stefan Raditch, was directing a furious filibuster against the Government's proposal to sign with Italy the Treaty of Nettuno (TIME, June u). That document would facilitate the "peaceful penetration" by Italian...
At the furious climax of the filibuster last week Croat Raditch paused, surveyed the government deputies with a blazing glance and roared: "You are not men! YOU ARE SWINE!!"
¶ Sat through an all-night filibuster on the Boulder Dam bill; laid it over as first unfinished business of the Senate next session (see below).
¶ Sat through a 23-hour filibuster led by Tennessee's McKellar on the conference report on the Muscle Shoals bill; adopted the report. The bill went to the President.