Word: eastland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Issue. Across the Hill, in a Senate committee room, Mississippi's rabble-rousing Senator James O. Eastland faced C. B. Baldwin, secretary of Henry Wallace's Progressive Party. "Beanie" Baldwin was there to protest an anti-Communist bill. Baldwin, who off the stand said he was no Communist, refused on the stand to answer whether he was one or not. Angry at Eastland's insistence, Baldwin shouted: "You've been fighting against Negro rights ever since you became a Senator...
...Mississippi drawl of Senator Eastland spread through the committee room. Said Eastland to Baldwin, using no initials: "You goddam son of a bitch...
...Eastland (Miss.) . . . In the Roman Senate there existed for 450 years the right of unlimited debate . . . Cicero, at the very height of Rome's power, said in the Roman Senate that if a change of that rule were ever made, it would mark the decline of Rome...
...Republicans had all week was listening to caterwauling Democrats, squirming under the President's civil-rights program with its proposed elimination of Jim Crowism on railroads and buses. Screams of rage and threats of revolt poured forth from Southern Democrats. Roared Mississippi's Senator James Eastland: "This proves that organized mongrel minorities control the Government." From the House floor, Georgia's Gene Cox chanted: "Sounds like the program of the Communist Party...
...pros discounted in advance the howls of conservative Southerners. But the howling began immediately. In the Senate, up rose Mississippi's triple-chinned James O. Eastland and cried: "The Southern wing of the party will not follow Mr. Hague's direction and will not vote for any candidate ... we think is inimical to the welfare of our people...