Word: ervin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plague the Democrats in Election Year, 1958. Next morning Lyndon went to work to find out just what kind of a jury trial compromise could get past the Senate. He talked to Southern Senators-Georgia's Richard Russell, Mississippi's John Stennis, North Carolina's Sam Ervin-and gauged the intensity of their reaction. That night Lyndon and Sam met secretly: the Senate, said Lyndon, would probably accept 30 days in jail and a $200 fine as the dividing line between judicial decree and jury trials in criminal contempt cases having to do with voting rights...
Then Russell assigned the sectors-North Carolina's genial Sam Ervin, who had sat on the subcommittee hearings on the legislation, would scout the overall area; Arkansas' Bill Fulbright (the darling of Northern literary liberals) and Alabama's John Sparkman, another man of liberal repute and Adlai Stevenson's running mate in 1952, would concentrate on jury trial; Alabama's Lister Hill, a liberal in good standing with labor, would ring the alarm bells in the ranks of organized labor, which is historically opposed to the use of Federal Court injunctions in strike situations; Arkansas...
...bring the civil rights bill directly to the floor, bypassing the Judiciary Committee.*Southerners were grateful for the help-and sore at the Republicans for outmaneuvering them. So five Southern Democrats who voted against the Hells Canyon bill a year ago (Mississippi's Eastland, North Carolina's Ervin, Louisiana's Long, Georgia's Russell, Florida's Smathers) turned around and voted for it. That tipped the balance: the Hells Canyon bill passed...
...Robert S. Kerr, Oregon's Wayne Morse, South Carolina's Olin D. Johnston and Strom Thurmond, Virginia's Harry Flood Byrd and A. Willis Robertson, and Wyoming's Joseph C. O'Mahoney. Paired against the bill: North Carolina's Sam J. Ervin...
...House sat as a Committee of the Whole to debate civil rights, Smith issued a two-part order of the day. His 100 Southern Congressmen were to concentrate fire behind an amendment calling for jury trials in contempt cases-a device of North Carolina's Senator Sam Ervin Jr. that would effectively gut the bill while piously pretending to preserve venerable jury-trial rights (TIME, May 6). They were to fight the battle with calmness and consideration, said Smith...