Word: eastlands
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...nothing else, Burger's appointment should act to quiet the more strident critics. Southerners like James Eastland, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, will be less likely to claim, as he once did, that the court is "the greatest single threat to our Constitution." Even Eastland might find it hard to reverse his judgment of last week, which called Burger "an outstanding jurist and a very fine...
...cost about $500 million a year, money largely ill-spent. Also due for pruning is the farm bloc's annual harvest of $3.5 billion in subsidies, two-thirds of which goes to farmers with incomes of more than $20,000. The fact that Mississippi's Senator James Eastland's plantations receive $157,930 a year for not growing cotton - while some of his constituents go hungry - ought to be reproach enough. Ironically, the Agriculture Department is also spending millions to improve big-scale Southern commercial farms, thus driving Negro farm laborers out of jobs...
...more pressing business facing the nation," is pushing for the total abolition of the Electoral College system. Presidential elections would be decided by popular vote only. Whether any of the resolutions succeeds or not depends on the support of Richard Nixon. Predicts Senate Judiciary Chairman James O. Eastland: "If the next President pushes electoral reform...
...undergraduate at Harvard, Ted had once been suspended for having another student take a Spanish exam for him. As a Senator, he has never been caught with homework undone. He made courtesy calls on his elders, including those with whom he completely disagreed. When Mississippi's James Eastland, chairman of the Judiciary Committee of which Kennedy was a member, entertained him in an early-morning interview with a stiff shot of bourbon, the guest smiled and accepted. The moment Eastland's eye was elsewhere, he emptied his glass into a wastebasket. Kennedy was soon a subcommittee chairman...
...interpretations vary, depending on the case. In 1966, he voted with the 5-to-4 majority to uphold the conviction of Eros Publisher Ralph Ginzburg on grounds that he pandered to prurient interests by using overly suggestive advertising. But that did not make much of an impression upon Eastland, Thurmond and critics even farther to the right. In a large mailing, the fanatically right-wing Liberty Lobby accused Fortas of being a convinced revolutionary and a supporter of the pornography industry...