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They were appearing before the Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments, chaired by Tennessee Democrat Estes Kefauver. Their warnings had to do with a scheme being pushed by Southern segregationist leaders, under which presidential electors would not be pledged to follow the popular vote in their state.
It was not the margin of the 50-34 victory of the Youth Employment Bill that impressed the proposal's backers, but the support the measure won from Southern Senators; Olin Johnston (D-S.C.), George Smathers (D-Fla.), Russell Long (D-La.), Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.), all voted for...
I recall that the rule was once relaxed, provisionally, to allow Senator Estes Kefauver then running for Vice-President to make an innocuous campaign speech in the University Auditorium in which he deplored the biological effects of nuclear testing. The Administration seemed enormously relieved when the whole affair passed without...
The drug companies were not accustomed to being summoned to Washington for contributions. Their industry had only recently been berated for the high price of drugs by a Senate subcommittee headed by Tennessee Democrat Estes Kefauver. One major drug firm has a price-fixing case pending in the Justice Department...
Only in the light of that relationship does last week's flap take on major political meaning. The antagonisms between Kennedy and Stevenson date back to the 1956 Democratic Convention, when Massachusetts' Senator John Kennedy placed in nomination the name of Adlai Stevenson of Illinois. Kennedy then thought...