Word: bill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whitten's role as leader of the group came as no surprise. A conservative and long-time opponent of federal civil rights bills, Whitten had fought to trim every appropriation bill this year (except one providing for increasing Interstate Highway construction, much of it, coincidentally, in the South...
THROUGHOUT the summer, prospects have been bleak for civil rights supporters in Congress. Wary Congressmen, watching the swing to the right among the home voters, have lost much of their ardor for further federal civil rights legislation. Those guiding welfare bills through the House watched helplessly as the inevitable budget cuts took alarmingly large chunks out of their appropriations. Then, in June, the bomb fell. Guided by Congressman Jamie Whitten of Mississippi, the House came within inches of saddling an $18 billion HEW bill with a rider that threatened to return school desegregation efforts to the medieval...
When the HEW bill came to the House, Whitten led more than his usual constituency of Southern Democrats. Pulling Northerners guarding against the Wallace threat into his alliance, Whitten rammed the rider through. None of the money voted in the bill, Whitten's amendment said, could be used or withheld to make local school districts integrate their schools...
...Nixon is blessed with a Republican House. Reactionaries in the Senate have already demonstrated their capacity to strike back at uncooperative administrators: any college which refuses to allow military recruiters on campus will be denied NASA research grants, as a result of a Republican-sponsored amendment to an appropriation bill this summer...
...success of the group C team revealed the potential of the Harvard squad. Steve Devereaux '69 won the singles C tournament, while teammate Bill Washauer '71, after an early loss to a Princetonian, won the consolation round...