Word: eastlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
Spending & Saving. Besides making speeches, Congress worked hard. Without changing a word, the House Foreign Affairs Committee rushed through the Senate's bill authorizing $1,222,500,000 for second-year military assistance to foreign nations ("Woefully inadequate," declared Mississippi's Senator James O. Eastland with post-Korean wisdom), and called for a Pacific pact modeled on the North Atlantic pact. The Senate Finance Committee, after talking it over with Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder, regretfully shelved the bill to cut excise taxes. Thirty-five Senators (including five Democrats) backed a 10% cut in all non-defense...