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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lively Senate session, to repeal the 10% federal excise taxes on a vast variety of consumer items ranging from cosmetics, handbags and luggage to mechanical pencils and pingpong balls. > Overrode, in a House Appropriations subcommittee on foreign operations, the decade-old dictatorship of Chairman Otto Passman, a Louisiana Democrat whose only particular claim to fame is his effective hostility to the foreign-aid program. Always in the past Passman had been backed by Missouri Democrat Clarence Cannon, chairman of the full Appropriations Committee. But Cannon died last May and was succeeded by Texas Democrat George Mahon. At the urging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Moving Again | 7/3/1964 | See Source »

...About Mammy. Under the terms of cloture, voted the week before, each Senator was limited to a total of one hour of speechmaking on all motions. Thus the day before the final vote, Georgia Democrat Richard Russell, leader of the filibustering forces, ran out of time, was ordered to sit down. He did so, with tears in his eyes: "We have fought the good fight until we were overwhelmed and gagged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: The Final Vote | 6/26/1964 | See Source »

...even with Russell out of action, the bitter battle continued. Just a few hours before the vote, Louisiana Democrat Russell Long, in one of those some-of-my-best-friends-are-Negroes statements, recalled how he had been reared by a "Negro mammy." The phrase enraged Rhode Island Democrat John Pastore. "We don't just want to protect your mammy," he said. "We want to protect everybody's mammy. We want to fix it so that a Negro woman can go into a drugstore and get a glass of water when she is thirsty. That's what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: The Final Vote | 6/26/1964 | See Source »

...that point, Florida Democrat George Smathers got into the act, shouting at Pastore: "Not one word does the Senator from Rhode Island know what he is talking about! She could go into any drugstore and get a drink of water." Moreover, Smathers continued, there is discrimination in the North as well as the South, so Pastore had no right "to get so holy and mighty about this." Retorted Pastore: "Well, if you have no segregation and discrimination, then you don't need to worry about this bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: The Final Vote | 6/26/1964 | See Source »

...delegate-scrounging was not Scranton's mission- not yet. Instead, what he had to do was build an image, not just as an energetic, articulate, moderate alternative to Goldwater but, far more important, as a Republican who might give Democrat Lyndon Johnson a terrific fight in November...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans: Mission: A Winner's Image | 6/26/1964 | See Source »

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