Word: northern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate's rules expired at adjournment last summer, and that the body is now governed by ordinary parliamentary procedure. They will seek to enact a new set of rules with more effective limitations on debate than the present requirement of 64 Senate votes to halt filibusters. If these Northern Senators can secure a majority to support their argument against the continuity of Senate rules, they can pass whatever new rules they wish without fear of filibuster on their own move...
...explanation so simple is available for the Northern Senators who will oppose the change. Some will sincerely maintain, with the late Senator Taft, that the Senate gains "prestige and power" through continuing status. Others may simply feel that the Democrats are easier to beat if a filibustering Senator can be shown to Negro voters...
...Some Northern Democrats can be counted on to back the party's platform pledge to seek a better rule, but they need G.O.P. help. The Administration can provide that help if it wishes, and forever end the curious right of an irresponsible minority to talk to death the majority's concern for the Constitutional rights of all citizens...
...Democratic Senators, led by Hubert H. Humphrey (Minn.) and Paul Douglas (Ill.), initiated this newest attempt to revise Rule XXII. The six northern Democratic liberals were joined recently by two Eastern Republicans, Irving Ives (N.Y.) and Clifford Case...
...wrote Virginia's Richmond Enquirer of the President of the U.S. in 1862. It was not unusual. Caught up in the passions of the era, the Northern Copperhead papers no less than the Southern press called Abraham Lincoln names that for venomous variety have been unsurpassed before or since in editorial tirades against a President-"The Ape,'' "Simple Susan," "Kentucky Mule," "Illinois Beast," "traitor," "lowborn, despicable tyrant," "cringing, crawling creature...