Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back down; his stalemate Olin ("the Solon") Johnston had a 40-hour speech ready for one of the biggest filibusters of all time. Calmly Russell argued Thurmond out of his proposal. He told Olin the Solon to keep his speech handy, just in case. Then Virginia's Harry Byrd summed up the sense of the meeting. "Dick," he said...
...laid down by Georgia's Richard Brevard Russell, Southern Senators were busily infiltrating Northern lines with Old South courtesy, sowing confusion with legalisms, and arguing more in sorrow than in anger against the Administration's civil rights bill. But somehow Virginia's old warrior, Harry Flood Byrd, failed to get the word. One day last week he rose up in the Senate in fine old-fashioned Southern style to attack the civil rights bill head...
...statute could be invoked under the bill to provide the armed might of the U.S. for enforcement of the bill's provisions. This bayonet force is only a sample of the kind of vicious stuff of which this bill is made." Who were the designing drafters? Rasped Byrd: "I strongly suspect that the modern Thaddeus Stevens* now cloaked in the robes of the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme...
...Fast?" Soon after Byrd sat down, the Senate voted by a lopsided 71 (29 Democrats, 42 Republicans) to 18 (Southern Democrats all) to begin debate on the rights bill already passed by the House. But no sooner had civil rights become the Senate's order of business than Minority Leader Bill Knowland's coalition commenced to come apart at the seams...
...True Aim. Knowland's troubles, of course, stemmed from the fact that in spite of such bombast as Harry Byrd's, Dick Russell's strategy had been amazingly effective. So persuasive were the Southern arguments that most of the Senate and the President too had completely lost sight of the true aim of the civil rights bill of 1957. Wrote TIME'S Congressional Correspondent James McConaughy at week...