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...little James C. Davis of Georgia could hardly wait for the chaplain to finish the House's opening prayer. At the sound of the "Amen" he was on his feet demanding a quorum call. It was the opening gun in a new Dixiecrat filibuster designed to prevent the FEPC bill from coming to the floor under the special rules of "Calendar Wednesday." Through most of the session the swinging doors to the chamber banged back & forth with metronomic regularity as the members scurried to answer eight different roll calls. Each swallowed up about 40 minutes...
Finally, shiny-pated Speaker Sam Rayburn, who has a Texan's distaste for FEPC itself, brushed aside two more Southern appeals for adjournment and ordered the District of Columbia Committee to call up any measures it had on tap. If it had none, FEPC supporters would be next at bat-and that was precisely what the Dixie-controlled District Committee wanted to avoid. For the rest of the day its members kept the House in meandering debate on the question of incorporating the Girl Scouts, enlivening the discussion occasionally with a few bitter sideswipes at FEPC...
...told," drawled Mississippi's red-haired Bill Colmer, "that [FEPC] would prevent discrimination in private employment because of race, color, creed or national origin". . . but the proponents ... do not point out that it is the most flagrant proposal for the regimentation of business...
...what some of his colleagues had been itching to do: he marched the Democrats' brash young Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. off to the woodshed. What got Brown's Republican dander up was Junior's charge that Brown had reneged on a pledge to support the controversial FEPC bill (TIME, Feb. 6). There had been no such pledge, said Brown, as Mr. Roosevelt might have known if he spent more time on the job and less time gallivanting around Manhattan...
...FEPC supporters made one more effort. Freshman Congressman Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. announced that he hoped to get a House majority-218 signatures-to a petition to pry the bill loose from committee. He was immediately sat upon by Manhattan's Adam Clayton Powell, one of the two House Negroes and author of the FEPC bill...