Word: civilizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Speakers for the evening meetings, which start this Wednesday, include Dean Bundy, David Riesman '31, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, Raphael Demos, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, and John Kenneth Galbraith, professor of Economics...
President Eisenhower, concerned in press conference about 5,500 Navy children locked out or threatened at Norfolk, raised a question about the South that applied to Governor Almond: "Is the citizen, be he an official or be he a man that is working in civil life and outside the Government, ready to obey the laws of his state and his nation...
Words were one Democratic weapon of the week; maneuver was another. In the Senate Johnson staked another claim to being the Great Initiator by introducing his own civil rights bill, similar to a measure the Justice Department is preparing. Special Johnson point: the U.S. should set up a federal community-relations service designed to mediate civil rights controversies as the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service tackles strike-threatening labor troubles. (Snapped an Administration legal eagle: "How can you conciliate, cut down, modify or negotiate constitutional rights in voting, schools, or Jim Crow?") Fellow Presidential Hopeful Jack Kennedy offered another version...
...from the floor. Such a power position is made to order for lanky (6 ft. 160 lbs.), courtly Howard Smith, possessor of the bushiest eyebrows south of John L. Lewis. A Byrd organization Democrat, he is the recognized leader of House Southern conservatives, uses his committee to fight off civil rights legislation. ("I use every weapon I've got," he says. "That's why I'm here.") Since 1931 Judge Smith (he was a state circuit judge) has represented Virginia's Eighth Congressional District, stretching from the Blue Ridge to the Northern Neck and including Charlottesville and Fredericksburg. Judge Smith...
Virginia's Smith especially subscribes to the latter when civil rights bills are before his committee. In 1956 he delayed Rules consideration of a civil rights bill for more than a month, was finally forced, by a signed petition from his own committee, to hold hearings. For days Southern Congressmen paraded their objections before Rules -and all the while Judge Smith kept counting committee noses. Finally one afternoon he found that no quorum was present -and down went his gavel. Missouri's Dick Boiling, leading the civil rights fight within Rules, realized he had been caught...