Word: eastland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...South greatly admire James Eastland. Millions of Southerners aren't going to be dictated to by "nine old political termites" or the N.A.A.C.P. The South has just begun to fight...
TIME'S portrait [March 26] of Senator Eastland as the new reactionary-respectable, resourceful, rhetorical-is a repelling one. With this man heading the Senate Judiciary Committee, forming a bottleneck to all the desperately needed legislation on civil rights and immigration, we will never regain our position of trust and leadership before the free world, particularly before the Asian nations...
...wonder how Senator Eastland would explain his concept of human liberty to the millions of Asiatics looking for a political anchor. In these brink-of-war days we can't afford this kind of folly...
...South's irrational and intransigent attitude can be traced to its own feelings of persecution vis-à-vis Washington. Men like Eastland owe their political lives to the hatreds this situation has evoked. The best answer is to oppose the dark (Eastland) image of the South with a new one. Estes Kefauver is the logical choice. His election would isolate the extremists by depriving them of mass support in much the same way as Eisenhower's presence in the White House finished McCarthy...
...Senator Eastland you say: "He does not face the question of how a constitutional system of government can operate unless some judicial process can determine in disputed cases what the Constitution means." What you will not face is the fact that the court had on many prior occasions already determined what the Constitution means on this point...