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...days the filibuster continued in friendly fashion. Then the Southerners ran out of words, and the sponsor of the amendment, Florida's Spessard Holland, rose to deliver the death blow. A Southern conservative, Holland had led the successful campaign to repeal the poll tax in his own state in 1937; since 1949 he has annually introduced an anti-poll-tax amendment in the Senate. Holland moved that the Senate take up a resolution to make a national monument of Alexander Hamilton's house in New York City...
Exaggerated Portrait. The plight of the migrant workers is bad; but because of its overstatement, Harvest drew howls, especially from Florida's U.S. Senator Spessard L. Holland, whose state was the one visited by Murrow. Harvest of Shame, said Holland, contained at least seven distortions and errors of fact. Holland cited, among others, the example of the 29-year-old Negro woman who told Murrow that she was the mother of 14 and had earned $1 for a full day's work in the fields. The facts were, said Holland, that seven of her children were dead...
Hardly had these letters been received when Florida's Senator Spessard Holland boasted pointedly that the South will be even stronger than before in the coming session. "There is no fight in sight between parties," said Holland. "It will be a fight between conservatives and liberals from now on . . . I expect there'll be a lot of help from conservatives on the Republican side of the aisle." Southerners seconding Holland pointed out that, industrial states or no, Kennedy would have lost without solid Southern support...
...denial of any civil rights on grounds of race, creed or color." The plank's most controversial proposal: a federal Fair Employment Practices Commission "to secure for everyone the right to equal opportunity for employment"-a proposal (already law in 16 states) that Florida's Senator Spessard Holland warned would "make it frightfully impossible to carry ten states of the Southland...
...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...