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...Maverick. Last week David Dubinsky climbed on a train and headed for the A.F.L. Executive Council meeting in Toronto. As usual, A.F.L. elders received him warily. At 57, Dubinsky is a brash youth and a maverick among the chieftains of the council, who clung to isolationism as long as they dared, who had backed reluctantly into political action and who once regarded unemployment insurance as dangerously socialistic...
...Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialism has made the grade, and people who have been discussing it can now find out what it means ("a . . . theory of man," says the new dictionary, "which expresses the individual's intense awareness of his contingency and freedom . . ."). Onetime Texas Congressman Maury Maverick's great contribution, gobbledygook, for the verbiage of officialdom, is also there, along with a learned note that it derives from the gobblings of turkeys. F.D.R. had contributed iffy (for questions) and H. L. Mencken ecdysiast (for stripteaser...
Deal on the Floor. Charging in from opposite directions, Ohio's Taft wanted to cut out the $12.5 million "outhouse fund" for submarginal farms, and North Dakota's maverick Republican William Langer wanted to double it. Langer threatened to filibuster all night. As he talked, Democratic leaders huddled near him, occasionally whispering to him. In the end, he sat down assured that he would have his way. Senator Taft snapped angrily: "We all saw the deal made here on the Senate floor. There is no question that the committee bought off the filibuster by agreeing to increase...
During the last hours of the debate on the new filibuster rule, the nasal voice of Oregon's maverick Republican Wayne Morse sounded through the chamber: "I think a new de facto political party in America was founded on the floor of the Senate tonight . . . We shall see whether the future voting record in the Senate does not also indicate that in a large measure this coalition predicts what will happen to great pieces of social legislation in the 81st Congress...
...This brought Pearson his closest brush with physical violence. In the House restaurant, Texas' Congressman Nat Patton (no kin to the general) beerily waved a knife under Pearson's nose until Maury Maverick interceded and eased Pearson out of harm...