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Gartin attacked the voting and attendance record of incumbent Senator James 0. Eastland. Then he startled-and delighted-rednecks and townsfolk alike by suddenly waving the old, tattered banner of white supremacy. The crowd whooped and clapped with electric excitement when Gartin said: "The greatest champion of white supremacy in our generation was Theodore G. Bilbo." He charged that "the great cause of white supremacy suffered a stunning defeat . . ." when Bilbo's right to sit in the U.S. Senate was challenged before his death in 1947. Gartin, who had never hinted that he planned such a campaign, tongue-lashed...
...angrily charged that Abe Feller's suicide had been brought on by the extra strain of defending Americans at U.N. against "indiscriminate smears and exaggerated charges." Senators McCarran, Willis Smith of North Carolina and James Eastland of Mississippi just as angrily called Lie's accusation "irresponsible," and promised to continue the inquiry...
Snapped Democratic Senator James O. Eastland of Mississippi, acting chairman of the subcommittee: "I am disappointed at the position taken by Mr. Trygve Lie ... to give these people ... a paid vacation. His action is beyond my comprehension." The U.N.'s Trygve Lie snapped back: "I am taking orderly and legal measures . . . without recourse to lynch law and smear...
...letter stated that Senator James O. Eastland's bill calling for the immediate declaration of a state of emergency in order that the McCarran Act detention camp provisions can go into effect at once makes the need for action imperative...
...federal judge. The crimes alleged are both petty and sleazy. The committee leaders are accused of charging up to $2,000 for a rural mail carrier's job, and selling Office of Price Stabilization jobs that weren't there. As for the Dixiecrats (including Senators Stennis and Eastland), they have long since patched up with the President, once more have the state's patronage in their own hands...