Word: celler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Leasco acquired Philadelphia's Reliance Insurance Co., an old-line company with useful cash assets. This deal, accomplished through a stock swap, sparked an inquiry by Brooklyn Democratic Congressman Emanuel Celler, who has serious doubts about conglomerates' taking over insurance companies and using their funds for expansion. Among the details turned up in hearings last week was that, in preparing the bid, Leasco executives used the code name "Raquel" for Reliance to conceal the identity of the target from even Leasco's own employees...
...Emanuel Celler, Democratic Congressman from Brooklyn, chairman of House Judiciary Committee...
Appearing before Emanuel Celler's House Judiciary Committee, Nixon's Attorney General, John Mitchell, went against bipartisan sentiment on the committee by opposing a five-year extension of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Instead, he offered a package that would broaden coverage to the whole country but risk weakened enforcement in the South...
...Chairman Celler, while not opposed to voting-law reform, felt that the Administration's bill was ill-timed. He argued that the existing law should be extended until a more comprehensive -and perhaps controversial-bill like the Administration's could be maneuvered through Congress. The committee's senior Republican, William McCulloch of Ohio, also favors a five-year extension of the 1965 act. So does the N.A.A.C.P.'s Mitchell, who described the Administration's proposal as a "sophisticated, calculated and incredible effort by the chief lawyer of the United States to make it impossible...
While Fortas delayed, pressure built up in Congress, and even Fortas' staunchest friends deserted him. Chairman Celler quietly ordered his Judiciary Committee staff to begin preparing articles of impeachment. With the agreement of House leaders, he and William McCulloch, the ranking Republican on the committee, talked with Mitchell. Though no one would say what Mitchell disclosed, his evidence was apparently convincing. "We got a vast amount of information," Celler told TIME Correspondent Neil MacNeil. "The Attorney General unfolded the whole story. It clinched the matter. It necessitated that the Judiciary Committee take some action unless Fortas resigned...