Word: celler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Democrats moved to take the victor's share of the spoils. Brooklyn's Congressman Emanuel Celler introduced a bill to create not 40 but 63 new federal judgeships. There was no indication from anywhere inside the Democratic Party that there would be any such nonsense as filling half the new posts with Republicans...
...keep score. Republican Minority Leader Charles Halleck sat quietly relaxed; Ohio's William McCulloch, the G.O.P. floor manager for the bill, dawdled with his yellow pencil; the South's floor manager, Louisiana's Edwin Willis, scribbled on a note pad; New York's Emanuel Celler, the Democrats' floor manager, even left the chamber during the count. At length, Speaker Sam Rayburn spoke the finish: "On this vote, the yeas are 311, the nays...
...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...