Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Square-jawed little James C. Davis of Georgia could hardly wait for the chaplain to finish the House's opening prayer. At the sound of the "Amen" he was on his feet demanding a quorum call. It was the opening gun in a new Dixiecrat filibuster designed to prevent the FEPC bill from coming to the floor under the special rules of "Calendar Wednesday." Through most of the session the swinging doors to the chamber banged back & forth with metronomic regularity as the members scurried to answer eight different roll calls. Each swallowed up about 40 minutes...
...told," drawled Mississippi's red-haired Bill Colmer, "that [FEPC] would prevent discrimination in private employment because of race, color, creed or national origin". . . but the proponents ... do not point out that it is the most flagrant proposal for the regimentation of business...
...government; Hamilton Fish Armstrong, editor of Foreign Affairs, who urged the "faithful members" of U.N. to bypass the Soviet veto and go on about their pressing business; Ely Culbertson, high priest of contract bridge, who wanted an international land, sea and air force (drawn principally from small nations) to prevent aggression...
...Democracy," warned Premier Alcide de Gasperi before the packed Chamber of Deputies, "will be defended at all costs to compel respect for free institutions and prevent violence...
Beer added that without a decent majority it will be difficult for Prime Minister Attlee to prevent inflation. "Splinter groups will give him trouble," he said...