Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Debate on any measure can now be shut off by a two-thirds vote of the Senate. The Administration wants to be able to shut off debate on any motion in the same way. It was against a motion to bring up a rule to limit filibusters that the Southerners were filibustering...
...first battle would not be fought on the field of civil rights. Before that issue was joined, North and South faced a preliminary skirmish over a new anti-filibuster rule. Under the proposed rule, two-thirds of the Senate could limit debate on any motion or measure. Southern Senators, well knowing that this would spike their guns in the civil rights fight, were set to filibuster the anti-filibuster rule to death, and Harry Truman knew it when he gave his order to Senate Majority Leader Scott Lucas...
...slight paunchiness. He and his second wife, Adelaide Hooker Marquand, and their three young children spend most of the year on his Kent's Island farm, four miles from Newburyport. When he is writing, he starts at 9:30 a.m. and dictates for four hours. That is his limit ("my metabolism or something"), and even so his first drafts are always two or three times too long...
...part of its program, the Maritime Commission had slashed the wartime limit of 900 passengers for each ship to 600 and added recreational facilities. The nine ships are the Ernie Pyle, Marine Tiger, Marine Jumper, Marine Shark, Marine Carp. Marine Marlin, Marine Flasher, Marine Robin, and Marine Perch...
...Corbeiller said that advance in science is virtually limitless when it can be worked with quantitatively. The chief limit on science is the time it takes to transform aspects of it from a qualitative to a quantitative basis, he stated...