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"What We Are Doing." Replied Scott Lucas: "The laws of a government are considered civilized to the extent that they protect the life of its citizens against the conduct and acts of others. The right of life is no less than the right to work and earn a livelihood . . . A...
But the Senate, in a worn and angry mood, was more waspish than rational. Minnesota's bouncy Hubert Humphrey called the South's arguments "blasphemy," and twice had to take his seat for defying senatorial decorum. Senators swapped insults and personal attacks. Lucas finally moved in to shut...
The Stayaways. Under new Senate rules, cloture requires a constitutional two-thirds majority (64) of the entire Senate. Before filing his petition, Lucas had challenged the Republicans to support him in trying to get the Senate to limit debate. The Republicans threw back a yelling gibe; it was up to...
There was no comfort for Lucas in the results. An almost solid phalanx of Southern Democrats stood against him. Such Administration stalwarts as Tydings of Maryland and Frank Graham of North Carolina, who was engaged in a bitter primary fight, managed to be absent. Six Democrats from western and border...
With the habitual, well-dressed air of weariness which he wears like a shroud, Scott Lucas laid aside FEPC. But "only temporarily," he said. They would get on with other pressing business, but they would come back to the FEPC fight.