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...minor Senate subcommittee job than the late Estes Kefauver. As chairman of the Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee, he mounted crusading investigations into a myriad of alleged wrongs, from price rigging in the electrical industry to overcharging by drug companies. To replace the Keef, Mississippi Democrat James O. Eastland, chairman of the parent Judiciary Committee, last week named a man who is every bit as liberal as Kefauver was, but far less flamboyant and aggressive: Michigan Democrat Philip A. Hart, 50.* While Kefauver often seemed to regard bigness as evil and businessmen as knaves, Hart served notice that he does...
Predictably, Mississippi's Democratic Senator James 0. Eastland said that the report reeked of "rankest falsehood." But even less Pavlovian officials thought the commission went overboard. The President himself pointed out that he has no general authority to hold back federal funds, since by law only Congress can say what strings are attached to what money. Broader presidential powers "would probably be unwise," he said...
...piece, preventing copies of the National Guardian and the Reporter from blowing away in the Georgia breeze. A picture of several field secretaries hangs on the wall, entitled in pencil: "Three who make revolution." Asked to explain that, a member of the office staff smiled: "Well, if we get Eastland beaten someday, that'll be a revolution...
Sunflower County, home of U.S. Sen. James O. Eastland, is located in the northwest Mississippi Delta country--a sparsely settled rural area where Negroes outnumber white persons more than...
Under normal Senate procedure, Marshall's appointment went to the Judiciary Committee, chaired by Mississippi's James O. Eastland. Eastland assigned a three-man subcommittee under South Carolina's Olin Johnston to study the nomination. When the subcommittee finally got down to business in July, Johnston looked on benignly as Subcommittee Counsel Lincoln Lipscomb, a Mississippian, closely questioned Marshall about the propriety of a number of N.A.A.C.P. cases-including many in which Marshall had played no direct part. As the same sort of questioning stretched into August, New York's Republican Senator Kenneth Keating, a member...