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...Waldbaum, whose 62 New York stores, along with the 100-store Daitch-Shopwell Supermarkets, dropped stamps last month: "We found that the cost of stamps was becoming an excessive burden and they were not as competitive as a few years ago." New York's irrepressible Rep. Emanuel Celler has called for a Congressional investigation of the trading stamp industry...
...Senate bill-a House-approved ban of the poll tax for state and local elections in Alabama, Mississippi, Virginia and Texas. Although such a ban was strongly urged by Teddy and Bobby Kennedy, the Senate rejected it. Under pressure from House liberals, Brooklyn Democrat Emanuel Celler, floor manager for the bill, supported the ban, though it caused him some embarrassment. Back in 1961, Celler opposed eliminating the poll tax by statute, proposed doing so by constitutional amendment instead. Last week Louisiana Democrat Joe D. Waggonner Jr. suggested that Celler was being inconsistent...
...Well and good - I contradict myself," replied Manny Celler, still quick in the head at 77. "I remember what Walt Whitman said in the Song of Myself." Quoted Manny...
...Virginia's Representative Howard Smith slipped the sex provision into the bill in an attempt to delay voting on the measure. Presumably, he hoped that his fellow male Congressmen would boggle at granting equal employment rights to women. There was some opposition-New York's Representative Emanuel Celler worried that to give women equal rights might affect just about every legal dealing between men and women-from divorce and property settlements to statutory rape...
...House debate, New York's Democratic Representative Emanuel Celler, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, made an impassioned plea. "We have trifled with fate long enough on this question of presidential inability," said Celler. "We can no longer delay. Delay is the art of keeping up with yesterday. We must keep abreast of tomorrow." But some Representatives had misgivings. Said Ohio Republican Clarence Brown: "Under certain circumstances, a vacancy could exist in the vice-presidency and a President could name a billy goat as Vice President and some Congresses would approve of that nomination...