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There were more of the same; all were beaten. But still the Senate could not get on with the vote. There was still Bill Langer to reckon with-a man determined never to let his anger be watered by reason. His objection to the draft extension resolution had been ignored. Now he was fixing to filibuster the Senate into repentance...
...While Langer argued, banged his fist, blew his nose, mopped his brow, Washington's blond Warren Magnuson, at the presiding officer's desk, signed his mail. The Senate restaurant was kept open; the jammed galleries tittered and yawned; all but half a dozen Senators creaked out to nap in the cloakrooms. At 7:30 p.m. they were summoned back to the floor by a Langer quorum call. They found the sagging North Dakotan chewing the mangled end of a cellophane-wrapped cigar...
After a dry-as-dust opening barrage by Majority Leader Alban Barkley, the high chamber floundered bravely for a while in a dismal sea of statistics. When North Dakota's Langer took the floor next day for the opposition, the senatorial audience dropped to a single listener. The Senators discussed wheat prices in Kansas, the profits of Henry J. Kaiser, the sex life of Government employes and, when time hung heavy, the loan...
Professor Fay has concentrated during the past few years on History 32, a survey of Modern Europe, which before the was taught by William L. Langer '15, Coolidge Professor of History. Next year History 32, as well as Professor Fay's own course on modern Germany, will be given by Yale's Harry R. Rudin...
...Senate confirmation as a delegate to the United Nations General Assembly. The Senator objected, guessed that 98% of his constituents would also object, and told his colleagues that he had written a book giving his reasons for objecting.* After that, North Dakota's Republican Senator William Langer reared up to announce that the whole United Nations setup was a square peg in a round hole, a phony and a lot of bunk...