Word: eastlands
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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...
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...
...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...
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...
...Chairman Eastland (D-Miss.) has said that "in all probability" the committee will begin consideration of the measure at tomorrow's meeting...