Word: kefauveritis
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¶ Senator Estes Kefauver, long a banner-waving Democratic liberal, but running for re-election this year in segregation-prone Tennessee, suddenly chose to attack the vital voting-rights heart of the bill with a crippling amendment. In the Judiciary Committee, Kefauver proposed an amendment that would change a would...
Soon after the North's Javits, like the South's Kefauver, went down to defeat.
Miriam Goldnne consulted the office background file. All this took three hours. Over a sandwich and coffee at his desk, Riesel listened again while Miriam read aloud the accumulated story notes. Then he wrote his column, from time to time asking help: "Read me the citation in the Kefauver report...
Hoffa's head-hunting-along with its failure-was dramatically demonstrated in another way last week. Uncovered by the New York Herald Tribune's Reporter Earl Mazo was a Hoffa political purge list, containing the names of 87 Senators and Representatives running for 1960 reelection. Sent several months...
"What has New Hampshire got to do with the price of eggs?" snapped a Humphrey henchman after Jack Kennedy's impressive primary victory last week. Said a Stuart Symington lieutenant: "Have any of the oldtimers given up? The professionals have been through this before." Such talk was more and...