Word: emanuele
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Still at issue was a civil rights bill produced by an eleven-member Judiciary subcommittee chaired by Brooklyn's civil righteous Democratic Representative Emanuel Celler, who also heads the full Judiciary Committee. That bill went far beyond what the Kennedy Administration had asked-and far beyond what either the House or the Senate would accept...
...other eight charter members are Wellesley, Northeastern, Simmons, Boston College, Wheelock, Tufts, Emanuel, and M.I.T. Participation by Harvard and Radcliffe in the Council must be approved by the HCUA and RGA respectively. Such approval appears certain...
...bill was an expanded version of the Administration's own civil rights package. The Administration measure had been taken in hand by Judiciary Committee Chairman Emanuel Celler, a vociferously civil righteous Brooklyn Democrat. Also sitting as chairman of a civil rights subcommittee, Celler made one personal addition after another to the Administration bill. His version expanded the public accommodations section to forbid discrimination by any business operating under state or local "authorization, permission or license." It authorized the Attorney General to intervene and bring suit on behalf of any individual to prevent the denial of any constitutional right...
...Washington a House Judiciary subcommittee approved its own version of President Kennedy's civil rights bill. It expanded and even liberalized the Administration's package. Under the leadership of Brooklyn's civil-rights drumbeating Congressman Emanuel Celler, the committee added a provision for a powerful FEPC (Fair Employment Practices Commission); ballooned the public-accommodations clause beyond Administration-set limits to include almost every establishment offering goods and services to the public; greatly expanded the injunctive powers requested for the Attorney General; boosted voting-rights guarantees to include not only antidiscrimination in federal elections but in state voting...
...present business is as strong a civil rights bill as possible. And it is my judgment, after studying the statements of men with acute political sensibilities (such as Rep. Emanuel Celler and President Kennedy), that a march on Washington by Negroes this summer will force many moderates from Southern and Western states to retrench, and vote against the bill. It is not so much a question, as Mr. Schiesser says, of "allenating" these moderates. Again, it is a question of politics. Many of these men would not be able to vote for a bill if it appeared to their constituencies...