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...effect over what its competitors were paying their help, Committee Chairman John L. McClellan last week called Schimmat's conduct "reprehensible."' Other committee Democrats, restive over being cast in the role of labor critics in McClellan investigations, vehemently agreed. Said North Carolina's Democrat Sam J. Ervin Jr.: "Those clerks were sold down the river...
...will pardon me," sighed North Carolina's Democratic Senator Sam Ervin Jr. after listening to a missileman's technical talk, "it sounds like unscrewing the inscrutable." By last week Sam Ervin, Chairman Lyndon Johnson and the rest of their colleagues in the Senate Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee hearings had reason to suspect that the Pentagon, like a complex missile, needed unscrewing badly. Having taken testimony on the state of the U.S. defense posture from military and civilian defense officials as well as scientists, the committee last week sat back while the nation's top missilemakers and planemakers opened...
...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...