Word: eastlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Speaking of Harvey Matusow the liar, Mississippi's Senator James Eastland recently linked the man's weapon and his crime. "His mouth," said the Senator, "has been used against his country." Matusow has quite a mouth, and he was busily using it again last week to his country's detriment and the Communist Party's advantage...
Whom the Boom. Matusow, expelled from the Communist Party in 1951 as a cheat and informer, has become a party hero since repudiating the testimony that he once copiously volunteered against Communists (TIME. Feb. 14). Questioned by Senator Eastland's Internal Security Subcommittee, Matusow alternately peddled the party line and his own brand of humor. With a sly smile he told of writing a poem, For Whom the Boom Dooms, about the H-bomb...
Last Friday, Senator Eastland, Democrat of Mississippi, asked Harlan: "Would you approve a treaty that would deprive the people of rights guaranteed them by the Constitution?" When the nominee replied that it would be "indiscreet and inappropriate" for him to reply, Eastland followed with a comparable question concerning school segregation. The implications of such interrogation are alarming. The decisions of justice, whose task it is to interpret the Constitution without prejudice, are fundamentally different from those of a legislator, whose first responsibility is to his constituents. When Senators try, then, to assure that a Federal judge's opinions will mirror...
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...
South. In any case, Gartin certainly struck the right chord for many voters. One farmer summed up: "Gartin's going to beat Jim Eastland by a tremendous vote. When he mentioned Bilbo, that's what will carry him all the way to the Senate...