Word: eastlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eastland Goes West. Thus it was last fortnight that, when the I.L.W.U. staged a mammoth testimonial dinner for convicted Boss Hall at Honolulu's Kewalo Inn, a sprinkling of venturesome politicians were among the 800 diners. Among the venturesome : highly respected Territorial Attorney General Edward N. Sylva, 54, a prominent Catholic, and longtime Communist foe as chairman of the Territorial Commission on Subversive Activities. Sylva explained he had been invited by the rank and file, accepted their invitation to see how the I.L.W.U. conducted itself. But he sat through some misconduct he had not anticipated...
...rose hawk-nosed, Aussie-born Harry Bridges himself to rant in down-under accents against Mississippi's Senator James O. Eastland. Noting that Eastland and his Internal Security Subcommittee were westward bound and due in Honolulu soon to investigate Communist infiltration, Bridges threatened that I.L.W.U. members might leave their pineapple and sugar plantations, knock off work at the piers and meet the Subcommittee with an angry aloha...
...needs of the occasion, e.g. before a Los Angeles luncheon club, he blasted Republican foreign policy; in a pitch for the Portuguese-American vote, he urged upward revision of McCarran-Walter Act immigration quotas; before a San Francisco Bay Negro organization, he attacked Kuchel for voting for Senator James Eastland's confirmation as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee (a routine vote on organization of the Senate...
Admittedly, the Democratic party is not all liberal and not all responsible. Indeed, the prospect of having Senator Eastland continue as chairman of a powerful committee is not pleasing. Nor is Democratic farm policy altogether constructive. But the indisputable fact remains that more committees are led more responsibly by Democrats than by Republicans. Whether Stevenson or Eisenhower is the next President, a bold foreign policy and a creative domestic policy can only emerge from a Democratic Congress...
Party organization was the other basic factor which led to Braucher's support of Eisenhower. "I find it easier to separate Eisenhower from Jenner and his wing of the party, than to divorce Stevenson from Eastland and his supporters...