Word: eastland
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...education the only required proof of a voter's literacy, now backed by Minority Leader Everett Dirksen as well, faced its first legislative test-and failed. The backers of the bill hoped to avoid sending their measure to the Judiciary Committee, which, under Mississippi's Senator James Eastland, has been a graveyard for civil rights legislation. They hoped instead to have it referred to Mansfield's Senate Rules Committee. But Vice President Lyndon Johnson, advised by the Senate parliamentarian, ruled that it had to go to Judiciary. The setback will be only temporary, Mansfield promised...
Tshombe had his friends in the U.S. Congress as well. One vocal group of U.S. supporters formed a Committee for Aid to Katanga Freedom Fighters; its roster ranged from respectable conservatives to right-wing ultras and included such Southern states' righters as Racist Senator James Eastland of Mississippi. They reasoned that Tshombe is one of the few African leaders who are proven anti-Communists and friendly to the white man. Katanga, continued the argument, has a right to self-determination if it prefers independence from the central government, particularly since it is by far the stablest of all Congolese...
...this country, Matthews came in for a disproportionate share of the retrospective blame. The National Review carried what he himself admits is a clever cartoon, showing a happy Castro saying "I got my job through the New York Times." The attack on Matthews was far from humorous, however. The Eastland-Dodd Committee questioned his failure to warn of the Communist potential in Castro's movement. The author's primary concern, therefore, is self-defense, and he argues passionately, if not eloquently, that truth in a Revolutionary situation is not absolute but relative to the shifting logic of the Revolution...
Then one of the first appointments was announced, and, not by chance, it went to a good friend of Mississippi's Senator James Eastland, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which passes on all new judges. William Harold Cox, who roomed with Eastland at the University of Mississippi law school nearly 40 years ago, has a solid legal background in Jackson, has occasionally served as a circuit judge and has not publicly committed himself on touchy civil rights issues. Yet, just as if a button had been pushed, the N.A.A.C.P. began protesting...
Then, with Eastland taken care of, it remained for the Administration to satisfy House Judiciary Committee Chairman Emanuel Celler-and Celler might well take a good deal of satisfying. As of last week, he was not the least bit happy. Two of Celler's fellow New Yorkers, Republican Senators Kenneth Keating and Jacob Javits, had submitted to the Justice Department a list of bar association recommendations for New York's eleven new judgeships. "The brashest thing I ever heard of," protested Celler...