Word: eastland
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Sunflower County, home of U.S. Sen. James O. Eastland, is located in the northwest Mississippi Delta country--a sparsely settled rural area where Negroes outnumber white persons more than...
Under normal Senate procedure, Marshall's appointment went to the Judiciary Committee, chaired by Mississippi's James O. Eastland. Eastland assigned a three-man subcommittee under South Carolina's Olin Johnston to study the nomination. When the subcommittee finally got down to business in July, Johnston looked on benignly as Subcommittee Counsel Lincoln Lipscomb, a Mississippian, closely questioned Marshall about the propriety of a number of N.A.A.C.P. cases-including many in which Marshall had played no direct part. As the same sort of questioning stretched into August, New York's Republican Senator Kenneth Keating, a member...
...maneuver was necessary to bring the poll-tax amendment to a Senate vote; the actual bill was tied up in the Judiciary Committee, chaired by Mississippi's James O. Eastland. Holland's tactics stirred the brief wrath of Georgia's Richard Russell, leader of the fight against the amendment. Cried Russell: "We are adopting an absurd, farfetched, irrational, unreasonable and unconstitutional method to get this amendment." Then Russell subsided and Holland's motion carried...
...important, since tax is not a significant bar to voting outside of Mississippi." The amendment has been attached to a bill establishing an Alexander Hamilton monument in New York so that it can not be sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee, headed by Sen. James O. Eastland (D-Miss...
...measure was introduced by Senate majority leader Mike Mansfield (D-Okla.) on Jan. 30 and was immediately referred to the Judiclary Committee, chaired by Sen. James O. Eastland (D-Miss.). Mansfield promised that if the Committee did not act on the bill by the end of May, he would bring it to the floor as a rider to other legislation...