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...Celler-McCulloch civil rights bill was substantially the one that had been recommended by the Administration. In five key sections it provides that: On petition of disenfranchised citizens, U.S. district courts shall appoint voting referees (TIME, March 14), who will see to it that Negroes qualified under state laws get to cast a vote in federal, state and local elections...
Working from fragmentary records, the U.S. Civil Rights Commission ruefully estimated last September that in the South only one Negro out of every four of voting age was registered. To thwart systematic exclusion of eligible Negroes from voting lists, the commission proposed that, where investigation proved exclusion, the President appoint federal registrars to guarantee voting rights denied by local officials. Promptly denounced by Southerners, the proposal was coolly received by President Eisenhower and Attorney General William P. Rogers. One reason: the registrar plan, as a direct executive remedy, would frontally assault what remained of "states' rights...
...Washington last week, Attorney General Rogers moved to place protection of voting rights firmly "within the established judicial framework" by proposing an alternative to the registrar device. Rogers' plan: federal district courts would be authorized to appoint voting referees to certify qualified voters in federal, state and local elections who may have been deprived of their right to vote by local officials. Obvious advantages of the referee proposal: unlike the registrar plan that applied to federal elections only, it would apply to all elections; a referee need not stop at registration but would be able to follow a complaint...
Since many of the council members who will be elected during the two-week balloting will be both inexperienced and illiterate (in a country 82% illiterate), Ayub has ordered that council chairmen receive two months of training in financial and administrative affairs. This spring, Ayub will appoint a commission to draft a constitution to go into effect by 1961. It will feature a strong executive, an absence of political parties ("Otherwise, we will have no peace"), and the in direct election of a national legislature and President by the new councils, serving as electoral colleges. The idea resembles the democracy...
...playing, whisky-drinking, evil old man." Of the late A.F.L. President William Green he said: "I have done a lot of exploring of Bill Green's mind, and I give you my word there is nothing there." Said Harry Truman of John L. Lewis: "I wouldn't appoint him dogcatcher...