Word: ervine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seeing Senators W. Kerr Scott and Sam E. Ervin of North Carolina, Clogston hopes he can persuade them to apply pressure in the State Department, even if the A.A.U. Still refuses to sanction the tour...
...Matter of Opinion. Other Southern states sent envoys to plead delay. Florida's Attorney General Richard Ervin quoted Isaiah: "He that believeth, shall not make haste." North Carolina's Assistant Attorney General Beverly Lake referred to an old case. "This court," said he, "allowed the city of New York four years ... to decide what to do with its garbage." Texas' Attorney General John Ben Shepperd drew a laugh by citing a public-opinion poll, which showed that 45% of sampled Texans are dead set on keeping segregation, only 14% favor desegregation. The same polling agency, said Shepperd...
...Raged, in the Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee, after Foreign Operations Administrator Harold Stassen sent word that his aides could be interviewed by subcommittee staff members only in the presence of either Stassen or his lawyers. Cried North Carolina's Democratic Senator Sam Ervin-of Stassen: "What meat doth this Caesar eat, that he hath grown so great?'' Growled Joe McCarthy: Stassen's stand was "the most unheard of thing I have seen...
That afternoon North Carolina's Democratic Senator Samuel Ervin, another member of the censure committee, arose to speak. He recalled that McCarthy had accused him of bias and, as usual, had quoted out of context from newspaper clippings to prove the charge. This habit of Joe's reminded Ervin of the North Carolina preacher who about 75 years ago deplored the local women's custom of wearing their hair in topknots. One Sunday he preached a sermon on the text: "Top (K)Not Come Down." At the end an irate woman-with a topknot-protested that...
Moral or Mental. Far from being biased, said Ervin, he "gave Senator McCarthy the benefit of all doubts, both reasonable and unreasonable." Then Ervin moved to another subject: the McCarthy speech (released to the press but never delivered on the Senate floor) calling the Watkins committee the "unwitting handmaiden" of the Communist Party. Said Ervin: "First, if Senator McCarthy made these fantastic and foul accusations against the members of the Select Committee without believing them to be true, he attempted to assassinate the character of these Senators, and ought to be expelled from membership in the Senate for moral incapacity...