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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...provision forbidding discrimination or segregation of races in any public housing project. Cried Bricker: "There has been a great deal of shadowboxing in the Congress in the attempt to place responsibility for the failure of the civil rights program. This is the one chance we will likely have to vote on this question during the present session...
...stir up a Southern filibuster against the bill if the amendment passed. When Illinois' Douglas tried to head off the maneuver, Republican Minority Leader Kenneth Wherry moved in with a taunting counterattack: "Does the Senator mean that this small and gallant group of liberals is going to vote for the amendment or does he mean it is going to vote against it? Being liberals, of course they would vote to support an amendment which provides that there shall be no discrimination...
Ruefully, Douglas admitted that he had probably succeeded only in "getting everyone angry and cutting my own political throat from ear to ear." The vote proved otherwise. By a vote of 49 to 31, eight Republicans helped 41 Democrats slap down John Bricker's non-segregation amendment. Among the eight Republicans was Ohio's senior Senator Robert Taft. After that, there was only one more major hurdle to take...
Only nine fewer men voted in yesterday's re-election, with 331 checked off on the voting lists, and 330 casting ballots. This one-vote discrepancy was a reduction from Thursday's 10-vote error...
...Winthrop House Council election, hotly contested and disputed after its first running Thursday, was settled last night. William S. Tyson '49 won by 13 votes on the re-vote...