Word: eastland
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...action. There was little indication, however, that either the President or the Congress-which is becoming known as the "negative 90th"-was of a mind to propose any major attempt to improve the lot of the slum dweller. Under the chair manship of Mississippi's archsegregationist James Eastland, the Senate Judiciary Committee continued hearings on the causes of the disturbances, as it considered a House-passed antiriot bill, doing nothing to assuage critics' fears that it was more concerned with repressing slum violence than averting it. The committee called on Leonard Kowalewski, a Newark turnkey who hinted...
...Strom Thurmond blamed the disturbances on "Communism, false compassion, civil disobedience, court decisions and criminal instinct." When a Nashville police captain insisted that federal poverty money was paying the salary of a local Black Power agitator-a charge that poverty officials in Nashville and Washington denied-Committee Chairman James Eastland proposed an additional investigation to determine if poverty funds "are being used to promote policies that have a tendency to produce riots...
...Government acts in its own interest by supporting it, just as other countries support their student organizations. But the objective could be accomplished with no scandal if HEW handled the funds. Yet one wonders: If such an expenditure were proposed in Congress, would not Senators Tower and Eastland and Congressman Rivers be among the first to cry "socialism...
...still-dominant Democrats also got a sorely needed transfusion. While such segregationist stalwarts as Arkansas' John McClellan, Georgia's Richard Russell, Louisiana's Allen Ellender and Mississippi's James Eastland were returned to the Senate with little or no opposition, a number of more progressive Democrats also won statewide office?notably Buford Ellington, elected Governor of Tennessee, and South Carolina's Governor Robert E. McNair, who as Lieutenant Governor acceded to the top job last year when Governor Donald Russell resigned. In Virginia, the big winner was William Spong, the moderate Democrat who ousted Senator A. Willis Robertson...
...MISSISSIPPI U.S. SENATOR Eastland (D)* (winner) Walker (R) U.S. House (5) +1 Democrat...