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When even Senator Sam was stumped….

Posted in On This Day, tagged , on March 15, 2013 | Leave a Comment »

On this day in 1960: Sen. Sam Ervin explains to Sen. Everett Dirksen, R.-Ill., why he required more information on a point of floor debate: “I am unable to unscrew the inscrutable.”  

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Segregationist cause welcomed ‘unreconstructed’ Ervin

Posted in Just A Bite, tagged , , , , , , on March 7, 2013 | Leave a Comment »

“Weeks after the Brown [vs. Board of Education decision in 1954], the press hailed the latest poster boy for the ‘soft Southern approach’…. Samuel J. Ervin, a Harvard-educated state Supreme Court justice, arrived in Washington ready to lend his legal expertise and ‘country lawyer’  charm to the segregationist cause. “Governor William Umstead tapped Ervin to [...]

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Ngram: Good old mountain dew? Not exactly

Posted in History, Literature, Tar Heelia, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on September 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

More phrase-frequency charts from Google Books Ngram Reader: – mountain dew vs. Mountain Dew – Michael Jordan vs. Thomas Wolfe, Andy Griffith and Sam Ervin – Lumbee Indians vs. Catawba Indians – Wilmington 10 vs. Chicago Seven – Charlotte Hornets vs. Charlotte Bobcats

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For Marshal Ney, life after death?

Posted in History, Tar Heelia, tagged , , , , , , , , , on January 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Still more phrase-frequency charts from the indefatigable Google Books Ngram Reader: – sweet tea – Jesse Helms vs. Terry Sanford and Sam Ervin – Old North State vs. Tar Heel State. Only now has Tar Heel State become the more common usage? There’s something here I’m not getting. – redneck vs. white trash and hillbilly [...]

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Ervin on racial lawlessness: Silent Sam

Posted in Just A Bite, tagged , , , , , , on December 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

“Sen. Sam Ervin found much to criticize in Gov. George Wallace’s [1963 'schoolhouse door'] face-off with the Justice Department, arguing that ‘such conduct seriously handicaps Southern senators in the fight against civil rights bills.’ “Nonetheless, Ervin, who had staked out a hardline position on integration early in his career, chose to keep these sentiments private. [...]

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A horse is a horse, of course, of course

Posted in Just A Bite, tagged , , , on March 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

“When the [Senate Watergate Committee's] report failed to single out the President, [Chairman Sam Ervin explained] that it was possible to draw a picture of a horse in two ways. You could draw the picture with a very good likeness. Or you could draw the picture and write under it, ‘This is a horse.’ Well, [...]

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