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...their own by-the-rules medicine. Dusting off a rules paragraph that had lain idle for a decade, Senate Republicans used it last week to save the Administration's civil rights bill from the strangling clutches of the powerful Judiciary Committee, chaired by Mississippi's James 0. Eastland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: One Roadblock Bypassed | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

With the House firmly on record on civil rights, Senate backers were ready with a strategy for taking the Administration bill directly to the Senate floor, thus bypassing the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, Mississippi's James O. Eastland, and his Senate civil-rights bill guaranteeing trial by jury. Even if successful, this strategy could hardly bypass the Senate's proud penchant for unlimited debate. Probable outcome: more Southern oratory and a full-dess Senate filibuster that could doom civil-rights legislation for still another session...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Civil-Rights Victory | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

Arkansas' John McClellan, Delaware's J. Allen Frear Jr., Georgia's Richard B. Russell and Herman E. Talmadge, Louisiana's Allen J. Ellen-der and Russell B. Long, Mississippi's James O. Eastland and John Stennis, Nevada's Alan Bible, New Mexico's Dennis Chavez, Oklahoma's Robert S. Kerr, Oregon's Wayne Morse, South Carolina's Olin D. Johnston and Strom Thurmond, Virginia's Harry Flood Byrd and A. Willis Robertson, and Wyoming's Joseph C. O'Mahoney. Paired against the bill: North Carolina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE NAYSAYERS | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

...Eastland, who supported the amendment while continuing to oppose the civil rights bill as a whole, said the section added today would give civil rights defendants the same right trade unionists now have in labor injunction cases...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Supreme Court Rules Du Pont Control of General Motors Illegal; Senate Group Harms Ike Plan | 6/4/1957 | See Source »

Tsuru, who returned to Harvard this year as a visiting lecturer, was subpoenaed before the Eastland Subcommittee and questioned for two days about his activities as a student in this country. Tsuru freely admits that he "acted, spoke, and wrote like a communist in this period" but his beliefs have changed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Four Professors Hit 'Procedure' In Senate Investigation of Tsuru | 5/21/1957 | See Source »

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