Word: celler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Walter P. Reuther, president of the United Auto Workers' Union, will address tonight's plenary session of the conference. Tomorrow night, delegates will hear Reps. Emmanuel Celler (D-N.Y.), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, and Charles Diggs (D-Mich.), one of five Negro members of Congress...
...present business is as strong a civil rights bill as possible. And it is my judgment, after studying the statements of men with acute political sensibilities (such as Rep. Emanuel Celler and President Kennedy), that a march on Washington by Negroes this summer will force many moderates from Southern and Western states to retrench, and vote against the bill. It is not so much a question, as Mr. Schiesser says, of "allenating" these moderates. Again, it is a question of politics. Many of these men would not be able to vote for a bill if it appeared to their constituencies...
...Burst of Laughter. In the Administration's wording, Title II would apply only to accommodations involved to a "substantial" degree in interstate commerce. That puzzled even Brooklyn's Democratic Representative Emanuel Celler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and a civil-righteous sort if ever there was one. Asked Celler, after Bobby had finished reading his prepared statement: "What is 'substantial'?" Bobby's answer touched off a burst of laughter in the crowded hearing room. Replied he: "More than minimal...
...even Celler was satisfied by that. He finally asked what Bobby thought about the possibility of placing a limitation of $500,000 gross annual revenue, dividing public-accommodations operators who would come under the new law from those who would not. Bobby said he saw "a good deal of merit" in that approach. "We'd be willing to work something out," he said...
...appears that Negro leaders might well destroy all hope for any sort of meaningful legislation by continuing massive public demonstrations this summer. No less a devoted advocate of civil rights than Rep. Emanuel Celler (D-N.Y.) chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said if there is violence in Washington this summer, "a number of votes may be lost to the cause...