Word: eastland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proposed to ban advertising that makes smoking out to be manly or glamorous, and to force manufacturers to state in their ads and on their packages that cigarettes are dangerous. Some cities took independent action; St. Louis decided to enforce an old law against smoking by minors, and Eastland, Texas, voted a dubious ban on selling or smoking cigarettes. Even more worrisome for tobaccomen is the long-range prospect that stronger Government reports and sharper public reactions can be expected later. Already three small U.S. life insurance companies have begun to offer policies with boosted benefits for persons who have...
Byrd, Va. Byrd, W. Va. Eastland, Miss. Lausche, Ohio Long, La. McClellan...
...minor Senate subcommittee job than the late Estes Kefauver. As chairman of the Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee, he mounted crusading investigations into a myriad of alleged wrongs, from price rigging in the electrical industry to overcharging by drug companies. To replace the Keef, Mississippi Democrat James O. Eastland, chairman of the parent Judiciary Committee, last week named a man who is every bit as liberal as Kefauver was, but far less flamboyant and aggressive: Michigan Democrat Philip A. Hart, 50.* While Kefauver often seemed to regard bigness as evil and businessmen as knaves, Hart served notice that he does...
Predictably, Mississippi's Democratic Senator James 0. Eastland said that the report reeked of "rankest falsehood." But even less Pavlovian officials thought the commission went overboard. The President himself pointed out that he has no general authority to hold back federal funds, since by law only Congress can say what strings are attached to what money. Broader presidential powers "would probably be unwise," he said...
...piece, preventing copies of the National Guardian and the Reporter from blowing away in the Georgia breeze. A picture of several field secretaries hangs on the wall, entitled in pencil: "Three who make revolution." Asked to explain that, a member of the office staff smiled: "Well, if we get Eastland beaten someday, that'll be a revolution...