Word: thurmond
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...hour program, which was first broadcast last September, included exclusive interviews with Speaker of the House John W. McCormack (D-Mass.), Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield (D-Mont.), and Sen. J. Strom Thurmond D.S.C...
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Lacking the votes of key Southern Democrats, the National Service Corps faces defeat in the House Rules Committee. But even in the Senate version, which barely passed, 47-44, the inclusion of the Thurmond amendment threatens the bill's efficacy. By making the Corps' activity contingent upon a governor's approval, the amendment needlessly injects the civil rights issue: it will, in effect, prohibit corpsmen from working with Southern Negroes. Inconsistent with a program aimed at aiding needy individuals, the amendment should be excluded from the House draft...
...that state of sprawling suburbia-California. So far this year, there have been 103 bank robberies just in Los Angeles County, an average of two for every three banking days. The holdup men average $6,000-and receive an average seven years in jail if caught. Federal Judge Thurmond Clarke sentences two or three each week in his Los Angeles court. Some 90% of the robbers are amateurs, says Clarke...
Civil rights is only a political issue because men like Sen. Thurmond insist upon playing on and contributing to the prejudice of their constituents. From the Pentagon's point of view, it is basically a Constitutional, not political, problem, and the Army has every right, if not an obligation, to insist that its representatives actively work against Constitutional infringements...