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...more sedentary, the editorial board offers an opportunity to analyze anything from the FEPC to the HAA, to discuss Miro Painting or the decline of Harvardmanship...
...added that the fact that most people quickly accept desegregation and that such legislation as President Roosevelt's wartime FEPC have worked so well, convinced him that we should desegregate the schools as soon as possible...
...COURTS. For years, liberals have argued that only new, drastic and specific legislation, i.e., FEPC, would do the Negroes any good. Yet in the past decade, the Negro has made tremendous progress not, in the main, through new legislation, but through a long series of court decisions interpreting the basic law of the land, the Constitution. These rulings, it was usually warned, were "out of step" with popular sentiment and would provoke trouble; yet, accepted virtually without protest, they have quietly accomplished a variety of things, from forcing Southern state universities...
Ives, who has been campaigning vigorously for Eisenhower, has a record which appeals to both New York City liberals and up-state conservatives. While in the state senate, he wrote the first FEPC law ever passed--the Ives-Quinn Law passed in 1946. In the United States Senate, he and Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota introduced a similar bill, and when it was defeated by a fillibuster, Ives proposed a cloture bill. Besides favoring FEPC, he has supported the Anti-Lynching and Anti-Poll tax bills. He pleased New York's large groups of immigrants by campaigning against the Walter-McCarran...
...FEPC. Against a federal compulsory FEPC on the grounds that it has no chance of passing the Senate, would therefore be of no real help in the fight against discrimination. He favors state FEPCs, and has promised that as President he would do everything in his power for state legislation against discrimination, including presidential influence on governors. He also promised strict anti-discrimination policies in federal employment...