Word: adams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harlem's handsome, husky Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr. talks more and does less about civil rights than anyone on Capitol Hill. In his 14 congressional years, he numbers his flamingly civil-righteous words in the hundreds of thousands, his headlines in the thousands-and his actual legislative achievements on the fingers of one flamboyantly waving hand. Yet Adam Powell is the living rebuttal to the notion that actions speak louder than words-and last week he proved it again. In his roughest political fight, bitterly opposed by Manhattan's Tammany Hall and New York's Democratic...
...executives publicly blamed glum weather, privately pointed to the Genet administration. Few of Genet's ideas had generated cash. He unleashed Greyhound's first broad public-relations drive, plugging the theme that bus riding can be classy and comfortable. The campaign cost millions, but, grumbled Vice President Adam P. Sledz, "it produced nothing of a tangible nature." Genet's greatest misadventure was Greyhound Rent-A-Car, Inc. Started 2½ years ago, it still rides in the red. Last week Genet, 48, resigned under pressure...
...since the visit of Robert Briscoe, Jewish Lord Mayor of Dublin, had a foreign visitor so quickly found a role in domestic politics. Some Deep South Democrats boycotted his speeches to Congress. Negro Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, crowded for reelection, made much of him when at week's end Nkrumah began his tour of the U.S. in Harlem. For his part, Nkrumah, laughing with a strong man's sympathy, hoped that he had given American Negroes a cause for pride by personifying the new Africa's promise of dignity in world affairs...
...nation in the Soviet bloc that has managed to achieve some scant room for maneuver within the bonds of Russian domination. With their customary stubbornness, the Poles had at first refused to join in the general satellite rejoicing over the Hungarian executions. Speaking in Poznan, Polish Foreign Minister Adam Rapacki said that Gomulka agreed to visit Budapest two months ago only after Hungarian Puppet Janos Kadar assured him that the final disposition of the Nagy group would be "bloodless." The Secretariat of the Polish Communist Party circulated a letter declaring that Polish Communist leaders "disassociated" themselves from the executions...
Conservative Catholics frowned; rank and file Protestants, reluctant to attract attention, kept silent; wealthy Jews retreated. But Father Cucchetti, flanked by Rabbi Schlesinger and Methodist Minister Adam Sosa, did not lose zeal. "The three musketeers," as supporters tagged them, worked on their congregations. The rabbi persuaded two of his richest members to finance the movement; the Protestant pastor got backing from the U.S. National Conference of Christians and Jews; the priest managed to keep stodgy superiors from getting involved...