Word: parliamentarian
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...only thing bothering the students is the constitutionality of the move. The U.S. Senate parliamentarian recently announced that since Senators are federal, not state, officers, recall by a state is unconstitutional...
...Democrat John Carroll, veteran of both World Wars, started the fight. Protesting the unprecedented scale of the bill, he moved to kill it outright. In the first showdown, the House voted twice to do so, but on standing and teller votes in which names are not recorded. Slick Parliamentarian Rankin was not to be licked so easily. Immediately, he demanded a roll call...
Vandenberg's personal contribution was threefold. As a parliamentarian he guided the Greek-Turkish and interim aid bills through Congress almost singlehandedly. As a policymaker, he prodded and pushed the State Department into recognizing the hopelessness of dealing with the Russians...
...wants and which Attlee is giving him is exemplified by three of the new men under Cripps. They are youngish men of education and proved ability, whose political views are secondary. One is Hugh Gaitskell, 41, the new Minister of Fuel & Power, a Winchester-Oxford product, a coolly effective parliamentarian who as Shinwell's subordinate made a better showing than his chief...
About the origin of his new name, Mazumbo was more secretive. At first he refused to reveal it. Growled one fellow Parliamentarian: "I won't call him Mazumbo until I know what it means. I might be calling him 'God of white...