Word: adame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ultimate key to the legislative record of the 90th Congress. Restive Democrats ignored the party line laid down by 75-year-old Speaker John McCormack and Majority Leader Carl Albert (under doctor's orders to ease up after last year's heart attack), in refusing to seat Adam Clayton Powell (see following story). Earlier, a Democratic caucus had flouted McCormack's wishes and voted to kick out the Clerk of the House, Ralph Roberts, a widely disliked 16-year veteran in that post...
...situation does not look much more hopeful now because of the war and the state of congress," Adam Walinsky, Senator Kennedy's legislative assistant said today...
...90th U.S. Congress convenes this week, it will be shadowed from the start by an irritating, embarrassing dilemma: what to do about Adam Clayton Powell, the errant, arrogant Democratic Representative from Harlem...
...Powell kept his estranged wife Yvette on his Washington payroll at $20,578 a year, although she is living in Puerto Rico. The subcommittee recommended that she be fired, and she promptly was, although the dismissal seemed likely to hurt Adam more than Yvette, since he has been regularly banking her paychecks (while sending her an undisclosed allowance...
...Soul Brother." Outwardly undisturbed by the furor in Washington, Powell continued to disport himself on Bimini (which he calls "Adam's Eden") in the company of the comely Corinne (whom he calls "Huffie"). By now, Powell treats the Bimini natives as if they were his constituents. Whether holding forth at his favorite hangout, Brown's Hotel bar in the tumbledown gingerbread village of Alice Town-where he sips Beck's beer and "cowbells" (Cutty Sark and milk)-or slapping backs on the street, Powell calls the Biminians "my kin" and "soul brother." At week...