Word: spessard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they disagreed heatedly on how the principle ought to work. Flurries of amendments poured onto the floor and out of caucuses; amendments were followed with amendments to other amendments, and for a time it seemed as if only the page boys had no amendments to offer. Florida's Spessard Holland guessed that, altogether, the many proposals on civil rights weighed eight lbs. Part of the Northern liberal opposition to the Dirksen "proposals" stemmed from an unwillingness to accept a Republican-labeled bill; similarly. Republican opposition to tougher proposals from such liberals as Illinois Democrat Paul Douglas and New York...
...independent status. President Eisenhower accepted the Prime Minister's invitation to visit Japan on his way home from Moscow. Kishi also got a favorable reception in Canada. Only in Japan did bitterness appear. The big Tokyo daily newspaper Asahi responded angrily to Florida's Senator Spessard Holland's suggestion that Kishi get the Nobel Peace Prize. "JAPANESE PEOPLE ARE FLABBERGASTED!" snorted Asahi. "Kishi has not contributed to peace; he is a destroyer of peace." The Tokyo Yomiuri cried that "the people fear the treaty may bring them into a war." Sankei reported that "the feeling in Kishi...