Word: democratic
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Nonetheless, Humphrey professed to see nothing but hopeful portents. "A good number of the dissidents have come back," he said. "I think we'll have a pretty good united front." Indeed, some key supporters of Eugene McCarthy, including former Democratic National Chairman Stephen Mitchell and California Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh, were back in the fold and others were expected to return in time. One who will not: Louisiana's Governor John McKeithen, who announced that he will not back Humphrey, thus in effect ceding his state to Wallace. McCarthy himself remained silent. Said a Democrat who had earlier...
...fact, at week's end there was every prospect of a filibuster-if the nomination should reach the Senate floor. Actually, Fortas' foes on the committee itself, including its chairman, Mississippi Democrat James O. Eastland, may well keep the nomination tied up in committee unless most of the Senators favoring it can finally be mustered to bring the matter to a vote. Should there be a floor fight, there is little likelihood that enough Senators would show up during this campaign month to provide the necessary two-thirds vote to cut off debate...
Glass, Right or Wrong. For the most part, The Case Against Congress reports conflict-of-interest cases, many of them unblushingly straightforward. Congressman Sam Gibbons, a Democrat from Florida, sponsored a special bill for construction of a veterans' hospital on land to be purchased from a corporation represented by his own law firm. Mississippi Senator James Eastland, a millionaire cotton farmer, fights strenuously for higher price supports for cotton. Though he vociferously opposes "big Government spending," Eastland received $129,997 last year in farm subsidies. Representative Arch Moore Jr., a Republican from West Virginia, belongs to a law firm...
...predominantly black St. Louis Congressional district will have an all-Negro general election in November. William L. Clay, a Democrat, will face Curtis C. Crawford, a onetime assistant city prosecutor who switched parties to run as a Republican...
...adjournment order provides for the legislature to reconvene briefly in September to reconsider any vetoed legislation, but it prohibits enactment of any new legislation. Unruh, no friend of Fellow Democrat Burns, called assemblymen to meet in defiance of the order. Despite a Republican boycott, the Democrats managed to pass two bills whose legality is thus automatically in question. Since one of the bills benefits workers injured on their jobs, Unruh expects labor unions to try to prove their validity in court...