Word: adams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dean Bundy will speak at the Seniors' Class Day ceremonies on June 11, the 1958 Permanent Class Committee announced yesterday. The morning's program, presided over by Merom Brachman, First Marshal of the Class, will also include a serious speech to be delivered by Adam Clymer, Class Orator. The Ivy Oration, traditionally a humorous piece, will be given by Harold E. Fitzgibbons...
Settling back to enjoy the election-year bawlgame between Democrats and Republicans, New York voters discovered last week that the starting lineups were far from firm. Moreover, they needed political scorecards to recognize players fighting for positions on each team. Items: ¶ Seven-term Negro Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, 49, already under indictment for income tax evasion (TIME, May 19), flipped into trouble on another front. Under prodding by Tammany Chieftain Carmine De Sapio, Harlem political leaders declared Powell Democrat non grata for his support of the Eisenhower-Nixon ticket two years ago, looked around for another candidate. Pastor Powell...
...Adam Clayton Powell, 49, Democratic Congressman from New York's Harlem district, pastor of Harlem's huge Abyssinian Baptist Church, threw his 1956 support to the national Republican ticket, stumped among his fellow Negroes on behalf of President Eisenhower. Already under investigation by the Internal Revenue Service, Powell landed in trouble with his own party for his political infidelity. But after Ike's victory, at least one of Powell's problems seemed to ease: the tax investigation bogged down...
...brought charges that a grateful Republican Administration was closing the books on Powell. A New York grand jury even threatened to take matters into its own hands unless it got more cooperation from Justice Department lawyers. With that, the investigation picked up again. Last week the grand jury indicted Adam Clayton Powell on charges that he helped prepare a fraudulent 1951 tax return for his wife, Jazz Pianist Hazel Scott, and evaded payment of taxes on $3,700 in a 1952 joint return. Moreover, at week's end, New York's Democratic organization was considering dropping him from...
...causes destruction and death, as in India. Sometimes it is the point of view of a sect or sectarian which hinders effective action, as with the student in my Survey of Civilization course who wrote, "World peace is an ideal which can never be reached, for when Christ cast Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden he condemned them and their descendants to sickness, pestilence, death and destruction...