Word: congressmen
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Democrat Weltner defeated Democrat Davis, went to Washington and, after the fashion of Congressmen in what used to be the one-party South, settled down for a long stay. Last year came a test of conscience-and New South politics. In meeting it, Weltner became the only Deep South Democratic Representative to vote for final passage of the civil rights bill. Letters -more than 1,000 of them-poured in from outraged white constituents, and Weltner's political career was imperiled. "I caught hell," he recalls. Although Georgia went for Goldwater, Weltner was saved by Atlanta's Negro...
There is one danger in proposing new legislation. In the past, especially in 1963-64, Federal officials have used the excuse that civil rights acts were pending in Congress to try to quiet Negro militancy. In the summer of 1963, for example, many Congressmen warned that a Negro March on Washington, would only harm the prospects of the proposed legislation...
...told them [Negroes] they could go over and register to vote anytime ...They don't need any demonstrations about it," Cooperwood stated. Cooperwood and Clayton gave their testimony at a hearing called by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. The MFDP is contesting the seating of the state's five congressmen. The Party subpoenaed the two officials under a several statute which allows election protestants a forty-day period to gather evidence for their challenge...
...result of this work--and the feverish efforts of more than people working in Cambridge and Boston--the Society recently published Election '64, a 124-page account of the election, including state-by-state analyses. Society members dispatched the reports to all Republican Congressmen, Senators, Governors, national committee members and other important GOP politicians. And people read the report. John Grenier, the Goldwater-selected Executive Director of the National Committee who left after the election fiasco, didn't like the treatment he received and wrote the Society. A Dallas newspaper, lauding the Society's report, demurred only when the report...
Zero for Three. While he received the greatest endorsement ever given a Chilean President (55% of the vote), Frei faced a lame-duck Congress in which his Christian Democrats held only 33 of 192 seats. With new elections coming up March 7, the Congressmen have been arguing and doodling away their time, have refused even to hear government ministers in defense of some key bills...