Word: celler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Holtzman yesterday accused the 84 year old Celler of ignoring the problems of Brooklyn's Tenth District, which he has represented for the past 50 years. She cited education, housing and health care as the major areas in which Celler has failed his constituents...
Elizabeth Holtzman '62 plans to challenge Rep. Emanuel Celler (D-N.Y.) -- the dean of Congress -- in the New York Democratic primary on June...
Finally and somewhat unexpectedly, the House voted to kill the amendment, largely because of the skilled opposition of New York's ancient Emanuel Celler, 83, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. A majority of 240 to 162 favored it but that was 28 votes short of the required two-thirds. Remarkably, a considerable lobby of churchmen opposed the idea. They argued that children -and their parents-can pray at home and, more substantively, that the churches in America have flourished under the First Amendment, which would have been weakened by the proposed change...
...year tenure, until his retirement in 1968 at the age of 91. Sometimes, too, a good chairman, secure in his fortress of seniority, can use his position to kill or modify a popular but unwise measure that colleagues support. Over the years, New York's Emanuel Celler, 82, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has quietly smothered several injudicious anti-subversive and anti-crime bills...
Politics was doubtless as persuasive as the merits of the bill. Somewhat ingenuously, Celler declared: "I don't know exactly why Congress acted so precipitously on this. Of course we are on the eve of an election." "In 1968," Mrs. Griffiths pointed out, "2,000.000 more women than men voted. In 1970, it is estimated that 3,000,000 more women than men will vote...