Word: eastlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more right to question Shelton than any other "man off the street," heard his testimony solely to "expose him and others to contempt and ridicule." The investigation was a "reprisal" against the Times, which had frequently criticized the segregationist views of Mississippi's Democratic Senator James Eastland, subcommittee chairman. Rauh pointed out that 30 of the 38 witnesses called to testify in closed session were current or onetime employees of the Times, and the subcommittee's Counsel Sourwine testified that he had made no comparable effort to investigate any other paper...
...When the Middle East debate ends, and the Senate turns to other legislation, there should be enough sympathetic votes to force the bill out of the Judiciary Committee, lorded over by Chairman James 0. Eastland of Mississippi. And when some 20 diehard Southern Senators attempt to talk the bill to death on the floor, there should be enough votes even under present cloture rules (64) to cut off the filibuster and bring the measure to a vote. In the House, which passed a civil-rights bill last year, the measure should have far less trouble...
...exclusive interview with the CRIMSON, Clark, who was in Cambridge yesterday to attend meetings of the Board of Overseers, declared that he would also vote against the reelection of Senator James O. Eastland (D-Miss.) to the chairmanship of the important Judiciary Committee, which handles civil rights legislation...
Unions Grow Up. Though integrated Honolulu bears no love for Mississippi's Eastland, it recoiled next morning at a newspaper picture of Harry Bridges and Attorney General Sylva shaking hands while Jack Hall hovered in the background. Shocked, Governor Samuel Wilder King summoned Sylva to his office at Iolani Palace for a 20-minute lecture. The gist of his angry remarks: Sylva had no business honoring convicted Communist Hall, who was on bond pending an appeal "only because of the extreme leniency of American...
...worried Hawaiians, waiting for the I.L.W.U. to bait the Eastland subcommittee (and probably damage, in the Senate's eyes, territorial hopes for early statehood), the substantial changes suddenly seemed grimly unsubstantial...