Word: emanuele
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feature of the substitute clause is that it would permit other owners to make two discriminatory transactions in a single year, but would make a third such sale illegal; large-scale real estate operators would thus find it difficult to segregate big apartments or tracts. Almost apologetically, Committee Chairman Emanuel Celler of Brooklyn noted afterward: "All good legislation is the result of compromise. The bill without the Mathias amendment would be like having a wine cellar without a corkscrew...
...their concern. The company, now housed in Lincoln Center, stands to lose $500,000 per annum in rent on the proposed office building; worse yet, the Met would have to pay a pretty penny just to keep its old home in repair. Taking all that into account, Brooklyn Democrat Emanuel Celler, 78, reported con brio in the U.S. House of Representatives: "By saving the building, they may destroy opera in New York." Besides, "some of the members of this citizens' group would think Puccini was the name of a spaghetti...
Rump Groups. Committee Chairman Emanuel Celler, serving his 22nd term, made another point by reading to Katzenbach a passage from Madison's Federalist Papers urging "frequent elections" for House members to ensure their "immediate dependency" on the people...
...build up challengers for their own seats (although the proposal as now drafted would force a Representative to resign at least a month before Election Day if he decided to run for the Senate). Some House members who face little challenge in their districts also are skeptical. Brooklyn Democrat Emanuel Celler, a 22-term Congressman and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, reasons: "The House represents the people, and they should have the right to register their will more often than every four years...
...demonstration, will be defended by the New York Civil Liberties Union, which announced that it would challenge the law's constitutionality. As for Selective Service Director Lewis Hershey's decision to reclassify as 1-A draft-card burners and sit-in demonstrators at draft boards, Emanuel Celler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, objected that this "degrades" the system. Replied Hershey: "Any deliberate, illegal obstruction of the administration of the law cannot be tolerated...