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All week the Senate wrangled in disorganized confusion. Members were tired of night sessions, tired of each other and dead tired of Majority Leader Scott Lucas' heavyhanded efforts to keep things moving. The nation's highest deliberative body was debating whether to extend ECA for 15 months. Oregon...
On the other side of the aisle, Majority Leader Lucas' face reddened. He shouted back: "I am not the first individual the Senator from Oregon has chastised . . . I wish the Senator from Oregon could hear what goes on in the cloakrooms about him sometimes . . ."
Inept Show. The whole filibuster fight was hard for most people to understand, and even harder to admire. It had been a shoddy performance all around. The Administration had promised to fight for civil rights for Negroes, but Harry Truman had gone fishing in Florida, and his Senate majority leader...
The Man on the Rail. At last, Majority Leader Scott Lucas decided to put a stop to all the talk. He presented a petition to end the debate by invoking cloture. It became Vice President Barkley's duty to rule on whether cloture could indeed be applied and the...
At week's end, it looked as if the Administration had made a mistake. Until then, Majority Leader Scott Lucas had had the assurance of considerable Republican support. In fact, he had hoped to have enough votes to apply cloture (limitation of debate), break the Southerners' filibuster, write...