Word: filibusterer
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¶ On the next to the last day of the last session of the 69th Congress, from 8:30 a. m. until late at night, President Coolidge scanned new measures, signed them, made, them law. As he toiled he waited for word from Capitol Hill where weary Senators carried a...
¶ Failed, because of the filibuster, to pass several important non-partisan bills: the Second Deficiency bill, carrying funds of $93,700,000 necessary to maintain part of the army and other Government organizations; the Public Buildings bill carrying $125,000,000; the Alien Property Claims bill; the Disabled Emergency...
On important issues before the Senate there often develops "a little group of willful men," to confound the majority. The group changes with the issue. Last week it was composed of a few old-guard Republicans and one Demo-cratic buffoon. It was dangerous because the end of the session...
*Next day, Senator Reed threatened a filibuster if his resolution was not considered. Said he: "If we do not get this authority, there will be no other business done this session. If the work of the committee is to be aborted, we might as well know it now."
One night last week at 2:30 a. m., Mrs. Hiram Johnson, a weary spectator of the filibuster against her husband's Boulder Dam bill, looked down from the Senate gallery on 29 Senators. Some were sprawled out on the lounges, asleep; Floor Leader Curtis and some others were...