Word: fepc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate's only effective challenge was compromise: a deep cut in FEPC's appropriation. The demagogues had their way. FEPC, which endeavors to enforce non-discrimination against anyone because of race, creed or color, might continue a few months. But as a permanent agency it was dead...
John Rankin's hair was flying as he shouted back: "Whenever I get down to the gentleman's level as it is reflected down here by this FEPC [Fair Employment Practice Committee] and Communists that he has been mixed up with...
...history, last week made what might be her last speech as Secretary of Labor. Her theme was old; but, coming from her, it was new. Echoing one of Tom Dewey's prime campaign arguments, she suggested that the Government's dozen-odd labor agencies (NWLB, NLRB, NRLP, FEPC, etc.) be put back under the Labor Department...
...FEPC, and the Democratic Party, are under equal pressure from Negroes. FEPC, itself, was established as the result of a Negro threat in 1941 to march, 50,-ooo strong, on Washington. The threatener: Florida-born, New York-educated A. (for Asa) Philip Randolph, 54, who, though no porter himself, runs the airtight sleeping car porters union. He has been the main author of the relentless pressure on FEPC ever since. In political terms, if FEPC moves forward, it is damned by Southern Democrats; if it stands still, it receives the scorn of the Negro population-and may lose...
...least once before, Franklin Roosevelt has been able to finesse the question; in July 1942, he turned FEPC over to WMCzar Paul McNutt, who conveniently forgot to take any action. But Mike Ross, one of the original bright boys of the early New Deal, has no intention of treading water. A Hotchkiss & Yale graduate, onetime miner, newsman and author (Death of a Yale Man), Mike Ross believes in FEPC's principles. Franklin Roosevelt cannot outwait this...