Word: adame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...political future may be nil. Senate adoption of the censure resolution seems assured; it would make Dodd only the sixth Senator in U.S. history to be so chastised by his colleagues. While this punishment may appear lenient-especially when contrasted with the House of Representatives' exclusion of Adam Clayton Powell-the mortification of censure is a sentence to political demise by inches. Dodd will keep all official perquisites, but must inevitably lose most of his influence and prestige, amassed, ironically, through his career as an investigator of others' transgressions. There is some doubt that he will be renominated...
...Powell does not present himself," intoned his attorney last week, "until it is determined that Congress is ready to swear him in." The House of Representatives was never less ready to seat Adam Clayton Powell, despite his re-election in Harlem April 11 by a 7 to 1 margin. Arizona Democrat Morris Udall, one of those urging Powell's reinstatement, conceded: "There are fewer votes for him now than there were on March 1," when his peers voted overwhelmingly to bar him during the life of the 90th Congress...
Congressman John Conyers Jr. of Detroit faced the most important political decision of his career early this year. Since he was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1964, Conyers had been considered the heir apparent to Adam Clayton Powell as the nation's leading Negro Democratic politician. Now he was asked to join the nine-man committee set up to examine Powell's sins and recommend whether the Harlem leader should be seated. Conyers knew that Congress was in a nasty mood over Powell's behavior -- indignant over Powell's bravado and scared over increasingly widespread feeling that...
...Though Adam Clayton Powell's campaign manager waited 90 minutes after the polls closed to claim victory, he need hardly have been so circumspect. Powell's re-election last week to the House seat from which he had been excluded in March was a foregone conclusion; the only question was how large his vote would be. As it happened, he beat two non-campaigning nonentities by a lopsided margin of nearly 7 to 1. But the results hardly seemed to bear out tales of uncontrollable rage among Negroes at Powell's treatment in Washington. Only...
...Adam Clayton Powell voted to exclude from the House of Representatives five members-elect from Mis sissippi-even though the delegation met all constitutional requirements for admission. All were over 25, U.S. citizens and residents of the state they sought to represent.*Now that the shoo is on the other foot, Powell contends that Congress has no constitutional right to deny him his own seat in Congress. Last week his suit based on this argument was thrown out of Federal District Court in Washington...