Word: celler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hearing's first witness was Brooklyn Democrat Emanuel Celler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, which wrote the original version of the bill. Celler read the bill section by section while Smith doodled fitfully. When Celler began enumerating the Attorney General's powers, Smith scribbled cryptically on his note pad: "Atty. Gen. -Czar." When Celler had finished, Mississippi's William Colmer blew up. "If it's not politics," he cried, "then what is behind all this rape of the constitutional and legislative processes? God pity this young republic...
...House Record. But even that package was not nearly strong enough for civil rights advocates in the House of Representatives. Brooklyn's Democratic Representative Emanuel Celler and his tenman Judiciary subcommittee produced a bill that fairly bristled with teeth. Where Kennedy had asked for voting rights protection for federal elections only, the subcommittee bill included all state and local elections as well. In public accommodations, the Celler group measure added a ban on discrimination in any business that "operates under state or local authorization, permission or license...
Both President Kennedy and Brother Bobby believed that this bill was too drastic to have a chance of legislative approval. In testimony before the full Judiciary Committee, also chaired by Celler, the Attorney General protested: "What I want is a bill, not an issue." Celler was willing to compromise a little, but not much?and in his drive, he got some vital help from House Republican leaders. In conferences with Celler and President Kennedy, G.O.P. Floor Leader Charles Halleck and Ohio's William McCulloch, the ranking minority member of the Judiciary Committee, pledged their support for a slightly watered-down...
...came to the Senate from the House, which received it from the Judiciary Committee, which constructed it by fusing President Kennedy's moderate bill with the more ambitious ideas of Congressmen Kastenmeier, Celler, and McCulloch. It consists of eleven Titles, treating voting, education, accomodations, and employment. Titles II and VII have aroused the most controversy, but advocates and opponents agree that few of the Titles can be called minor. The most important Titles...
...freer advertising would provoke the Prohibitionists. The broadcasters, however, freely advertise beer and wine, which, when used immoderately, can be just as overpowering as whisky. Last week NAB President LeRoy Collins strongly urged WQXR to reconsider, said that its position could "break down the gates." But Brooklyn Congressman Emanuel Celler congratulated the station for "wiping away the hypocrisy...