Word: thurmonds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senator Thurmond may have told Senator Russell that he intended to make a "long speech," but he did not say he intended to make a Senate-record filibuster...
...STROM THURMOND...
Your article failed to report my reasons for introducing a bill to prohibit the service and consumption of alcoholic beverages on airplanes'; the bill's intent is to provide greater safety for passengers on aircraft. STROM THURMOND United States Senate Washington...
...doesn't Senator Strom Thurmond worry more about the social problems of South Carolina rather than alleged "flying saloons...
Grandstand Wind. Strom Thurmond mumbled on, sipping orange juice sportingly brought to him by Illinois' liberal Paul Douglas, munching diced pumpernickel and bits of cooked hamburger. At 1:40 p.m. he allowed: "I've been on my feet the last 17 hours and I still feel pretty good." At 7:21 p.m. Thurmond broke the old Senate record for longwindedness, set by Oregon's Wayne Morse in the 1953 tidelands oil filibuster.* And at 9:12 p.m., 24 hours and 18 minutes after he started, Thurmond shut up and sat down...