Word: olin
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...Prejudice and pettiness have had their day," cried Connecticut's Democratic Senator Thomas Dodd. "Now responsibility and fairness will render the decision.'' After four months of sporadic hearings before a judiciary subcommittee headed by South Carolina's Olin Johnston, the Senate confirmed the appointment of a controversial Negro to the U.S. Court of Appeals. He is Thurgood Marshall, 54, longtime chief counsel to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, who has been sitting as a Second Circuit (New York, Connecticut, Vermont) judge since his nomination by President Kennedy a year ago. The Senate...
Under normal Senate procedure, Marshall's appointment went to the Judiciary Committee, chaired by Mississippi's James O. Eastland. Eastland assigned a three-man subcommittee under South Carolina's Olin Johnston to study the nomination. When the subcommittee finally got down to business in July, Johnston looked on benignly as Subcommittee Counsel Lincoln Lipscomb, a Mississippian, closely questioned Marshall about the propriety of a number of N.A.A.C.P. cases-including many in which Marshall had played no direct part. As the same sort of questioning stretched into August, New York's Republican Senator Kenneth Keating, a member...
...Columbia, the 1958 America's Cup champion, which managed to win only four races, suffered a crowning indignity when her 90-ft., extruded aluminum mast snapped during a race with Nefertiti, pitching two crewmen overboard and sending the heavy boom crashing down inches from the head of Designer Olin Stephens. But nobody counted Columbia out; many of her losses were by a margin of seconds. Even hapless Easterner, which won only one race, was not ready to quit, with Olympic Champion George O'Day at the helm and a full set of new sails in the offing...
...party to grow because it might outgrow them." Under Chapman, South Carolina Republicans are running their first major candidate for the Senate since Reconstruction: William D. Workman Jr., 47, a widely known, highly respected syndicated columnist and pro-segregationist author (Case for the South), who is seeking Democrat Olin Johnston's seat...
Because the state constitution forbids them to succeed themselves. South Carolina's Governors usually spend the latter part of their four-year term looking around for a new job. Embarking on just such a search in 1944, Governor Olin Dewitt Johnston, then 47. combined youthful vigor and a slashing attack to unseat Senator "Cotton Ed" Smith, a scarred old veteran who broke all existing records for Senate longevity.-This year, at 65 a veteran of more than 17 years in the Senate, Olin Johnston knew how Cotton Ed must have felt. Opposing him in the state's Democratic...