Word: senlis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vagueness of the report made many legislators join those who might have had something to gain by discrediting it--South Boston's Sen. John Powers said that it made him "retch inside"--and strengthened the charge that the Commission was merely crying wolf. Opposition to the report also weakened the effect of its positive conclusions about police laxity, the newspapers' cooperation, and occasional political collusion with gamblers...
...Senate Judiciary Committee put off action on the civil rights issue again yesterday, but Chairman Eastland (D-Miss.) said it probably would begin considering the legislation April 29. Eastland wouldn't predict when the committee might take a vote, but Sen. Neely (D-W. Va.) offered an estimate that it never would...
WASHINGTON, April 9--Republican congressional leaders said today they have no "deal" with Southern Democrats to delay action on civil rights legislation for another year. Sen. Eastland (D-Miss.) agreed there is no such arrangement...
That word came from Sen. Hennings (D-Mo.), one of a sizable group invited to the White House from the Capitol to hear Eisenhower report on his Bermuda conference with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan of Great Britain...
...Sen. Bridges (R-N.H.) and others at the White House meeting said they were reassured that any atomic warheads for missiles sent to Britain would "remain in our custody...