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...Fell nine short of the 64 votes needed to impose cloture on FEPC, the only way to shut off a filibuster if the bill were brought up. Voting for cloture: 22 Democrats and 33 Republicans; against, 27 Democrats and 6 Republicans. Civil rights legislation was dead in the 81st Congress...
...poor voter's cigarettes, beer and gasoline to set up a welfare program shot full of politics, he cried. Weren't the Longs paying for Russell's campaign out of a multimillion-dollar highway appropriation? Russell wasn't saying, but shrewdly baited Lafargue into opposing FEPC, in hopes of undercutting the prospective pro-Lafargue Negro vote in New Orleans...
...with Negroes," warned a newspaper ad, "vote for Graham." Graham, onetime president of the University of North Carolina, tried his quiet best to point out that, though he had been a member of Harry Truman's Civil Rights Committee, he himself was opposed to the compulsory clauses of FEPC...
...Majority Floor Leader Scott Lucas' list of 22 "must" bills, and agreed to cooperate if it was whittled down to six: expansion of social security, extension of the draft and MAP, the omnibus $29 billion appropriation bill, a bill cutting excise taxes, and a final attempt to pass FEPC. Said Ohio's Robert A. Taft with a grin: "Our part of the deal would be to keep the boys from talking." Adjournment target: August...
...opponents charged him with Communist association with a zest worthy of Senator Joe McCarthy. Full-page ads howled that Graham was a supporter of FEPC, and that he had addressed unsegregated meetings. Voters were asked darkly if they wanted their sons working under a Negro foreman. Thousands received postcards mailed from New York City extolling what Graham had done for Negroes, with the signature: "W. Wite, executive secretary, National Society for the Advancement of the Colored Race."*Against such tactics Graham felt forced to play down his Fair Dealing as much as possible. Though he had served on Harry Truman...