Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this session; otherwise, the party-splitting issue would return to plague the Democrats in Election Year, 1958. Next morning Lyndon went to work to find out just what kind of a jury trial compromise could get past the Senate. He talked to Southern Senators-Georgia's Richard Russell, Mississippi's John Stennis, North Carolina's Sam Ervin-and gauged the intensity of their reaction. That night Lyndon and Sam met secretly: the Senate, said Lyndon, would probably accept 30 days in jail and a $200 fine as the dividing line between judicial decree and jury trials...
Last week the Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Mississippi's Democrat James Oliver Eastland. and the House Judiciary Committee, starring Pennsylvania's Democrat Francis E. ("Tad") Walter, co-author of the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act. handed the President and the U.S. their answer. Its net: the U.S.'s prestige and the U.S.'s good faith could go hang...
Though All-Star Fullback Paige Cothren of Mississippi (Los Angeles Rams) produced two surprisingly professional field goals of 12 and 25 yds., the boys' passing attack never again threatened the men's defense. While the Giants' backfield deployed far to the rear to bat down long passes, beefy Giant linesmen crashed through to rush Quarterbacks Brodie and Paul Hornung. In marked difference between pro experience and college eagerness, the college quarterbacks tried to run and were smeared, while the Giants' Charley Conerly refused to budge when rushed, coolly ate the ball and waited for the next...
Presidential Break. Senator Russell had assigned himself the most exacting and perhaps the most surprising role of all: any harsh words that had to be spoken would be spoken not by Georgia's cowlicked Talmadge, not by Mississippi's Racist Jim Eastland, but by Richard Brevard Russell himself. It was understood without words that a diatribe from a Talmadge or an Eastland would predictably get lost, as usual, in the Senate swirl; but if it came from reasonable, respected Dick Russell, a sharp blast would be heard with respectful attention. One day last month Dick Russell...
...fewer than eleven lawyers to represent them. As the trial droned on for twelve days, the defense attorneys did little more than rise to object or make wordy points of law, or try to inflame segregationist feelings in the jury. One defense attorney, Ross Barnett, informed the jury that Mississippi's Senator James Eastland had instructed him to "tell that jury what's happened in Washington." Eastland's news: 874 public-school children in Washington. D.C. "have loathsome and contagious diseases, and 97% among them are colored...