Word: southern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lieutenant, Utah's William H. King, hesitated too long getting to his feet with a District of Columbia airport bill. Up jumped New York's Robert Wagner with his Federal Anti-Lynching Bill which had already passed the House. So fearful of a last-minute filibuster by Southern Senators was Leader Barkley that he promised to make anti-lynching the first order of business after the Farm Bill in the next session, if Senator Wagner would withdraw it at that time. As the special session was sitting last week both Leader Barkley and slow-footed Lieutenant King...
Although Tom Connally is supposed to belong to the group of Southern Senators who would like to weaken Franklin Roosevelt's Southern popularity by making him sign an anti-lynching bill, rarely is there a Southern Senator who does not feel bound to talk against the measure at length on the floor or who does not enjoy himself hugely doing...
...would probably expire before the Anti-Lynching Bill was voted on, slender Mrs. Graves put her protest on record with ladylike dignity. Said she: ". . . If this bill is passed, you will say not merely to America but ... to the world, we have in our Union a group of Southern States that cannot or will not enforce the law. I cannot believe that any Senator . . . would thus violate the indestructible sovereignty of a sister State...
...weekend adjournment any hope that the Wagnerites could break through the Southern barrage to bring their bill to a vote had grown dim indeed. It disappeared altogether as the Senate reconvened this week when, with the filibuster going into its sixth successful day, "Cotton Ed" Smith abruptly closed it to his colleagues' intense and unanimous relief by producing his farm bill...
...President, the patronage arrangements for which in previous administrations the Speaker had been a sort of clearing house began instead to be handled much more directly by the White House. Thus the job that, after his 20 years in the House as an able if not spectacular Southern politician, came to William Bankhead last year was by no means as consequential as it had been. If, in the first years of the New Deal, the Speaker found it harder to run the House, there was also from the President's point of view, less need...