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...surging forward in the house of labor and all areas of American life." To begin, Randolph will bear down with the "leverage of pressure" on both political parties. At the national conventions, he promises, Negro unionists and churchmen will lead "massive protest demonstrations . . . against both parties' failure to enact meaningful civil rights legislation." While Randolph was disowning all the candidates, N.A.A.C.P. Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins made a bow to Richard Nixon. The Vice President, said Wilkins, has a "good record on civil rights." As for the Democratic presidential contenders...
...dollar housing bill (see below) and the bill to boost the pay of federal employees by 20%. He worked away at a tough-toned special message, to be sent to Capitol Hill this week, calling upon Congress to resist election-year spending temptations, reject budget-straining welfare bills, and enact his own less costly proposals instead...
...glad to do it," says Rayburn. "But a lot of folks don't have the money and can't do it." Rayburn, who rarely recounts personal stories unless they make a political point, was circulating that one last week-along with his word that Congress had better enact some program for federal aid to the ailing aged before it goes home in July...
...Democrats wrested office from President Ismet Inonu's Republicans in 1950, they have gagged newspapers, jailed more than 200 journalists, and cuffed the opposition about with barbarous disregard for civil rights. Unlike Rhee. Menderes knows what his followers are doing, and in fact dictates the laws that they enact...
Bang & Whimper. The last hours of debate made the bill sound like a calamity. Shuddered Virginia's Democratic Harry Byrd: "I have never known such a determined effort to enact punitive legislation, most of which was unconstitutional and offensive to the South...