Word: gavagan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last spring under the spur of the two blowtorch lynchings at Duck Hill, Miss. (TIME, April 26), the Gavagan Bill, a similar anti-lynching measure, passed the House. Passage by the Senate therefore meant that the bill would become law barring the unlikely event of a Presidential veto. So as predicted, Texas' Tom Connally promptly organized a filibuster. Not as predicted, that filibuster last week rounded out ten days and had gathered so much momentum that Tom Connally jubilantly announced he would keep it going if necessary until Christmas...
...Passed (277 to 119) the anti-lynching bill introduced by Representative Gavagan, in whose New York district lies Manhattan's black Harlem, after a three-day debate. Sent it to the Senate. ¶ Passed (268 to 120) the Pettengill Bill which would repeal the long-&-short-haul clause of the Interstate Commerce Commission Act, permit railroads to charge less for a long haul than the aggregate rates between intermediate points. Sent it to the Senate where a similar bill died in committee last session...
...Washington, before a gallery crowded with Negroes, the U. S. House of Representatives was beginning to debate a drastic anti-lynching bill introduced by Congressman Gavagan from New York's black Harlem. In Jackson, Miss., before delegates to a farm conference, Governor Hugh Lawson White was boasting that Mississippi had not had a lynching in 15 months. In Winona, Miss., in a jampacked courtroom in Montgomery County's white brick courthouse, Roosevelt Townes and Bootjack McDaniels, 26-year-old Negroes, were pleading not guilty to a charge of murdering a crossroads country grocer during a robbery last December...
...present session, southern Representatives, opposed to any kind of anti-lynching legislation, became strange legislative bedfellows of Representatives who wanted more drastic penalties than the Mitchell bill provided. This week, when the House considers the drastic anti-lynching bill sponsored by New York's Joseph A. Gavagan, southern members will have to seek other bedfellows. Negro Arthur Mitchell, whose bill provided only for the prosecution of law officers who allowed prisoners to be taken away from them and lynched, announced after his defeat that he would support the Gavagan bill, which provides for Federal prosecution of members of lynch...
...Townsend, inquired New York's Gavagan, like Townsend Plan literature which referred to him as "Christ reincarnate...