Word: fepc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eyed intentness, and cheered The Man. Even planters in the rich Delta country who had always opposed him would vote for him this time. They thought him a knave but they knew he would filibuster to death any Congressional threat to "white man's supremacy" such as FEPC (the Fair Employment Practice Committee). Nothing short of a miracle would keep Bilbo from renomination, election, six more noisy years in the nation's capital...
...A.V.C. accepted as members men & women from all World War II armed services, in & out of uniform, and from the Merchant Marine. It had plumped noisily for FEPC, OPA, the minimum-wage bill, federal housing subsidies, other allied issues. From inside & out it had been damned as Communistic, boosted as liberal, dismissed as just another fly-by-night collection of hotheads. Even its leaders admitted they didn't know what the rank & file thought...
...third time in four weeks forced adjournment on Wednesday-calendar day-to prevent the FEPC bill from coming to the floor...
...Wasted one afternoon in filibuster and six quorum calls to prevent the FEPC bill from coming to the floor...
...College delegation, minimized because of conflicting examinations, came after the Massachusetts Committee for FEPC had issued a rally call to other organizations interested in the bill. On Saturday, the HLU's Committee for FEPC, headed by Calogero Taibi '49, posted placards throughout the College asking student representation at the rally...