Word: adams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republicans and more than half the 234 Democrats still prepared to vote down the jury-trial amendment. But as debate continued toward this week's crucial voting, a new wedge was driven in the pro-civil-rights ranks. The driver: no less an advocate than Harlem's Adam Clayton Powell. "Why send Pennsylvania and Ohio Democrats to Congress," he wrote fellow House members, "if they must take their orders from the middlemen who serve the White Citizens' Councils...
...Richard Perkins Parker Scholarship for 1956-7, for "intellectual achievement and participation in student activities," was awarded to Adam Clymer '58 of Lowell House and New York City...
...Court's epochal desegregation decision, some 14,000 Negroes and whites, members of a Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, converged on Washington, D.C.'s Lincoln Memorial temple. The three-hour program offered some prayers, hymns, solemn speeches and outright rabble-rousing. New York's shrill Democratic Congressman Adam Clayton Powell bitterly cried: "We meet here today in front of the Lincoln Memorial because we are getting more from a dead Republican than we are from live Democrats and live Republicans!" In direct contrast, staking his hopes on the future rather than anchoring his peeves on the past...
Modus Moriendi? The heat went on early in 1950. The Communists took over the Catholic charitable organization Caritas. charging that it was a spy center. Bishop Wyszynski and the aged Adam Cardinal Sapieha, archbishop of Cracow, wrote to Communist President Boleslaw Bierut complaining of "abnormal moral pressure . . . organized hunts after priests." who were sometimes arrested and dragged off in their vestments. The Communists replied by confiscating all lands held by religious orders. The following month, while Cardinal Sapieha was in Rome, Primate Wyszynski shocked the Vatican by negotiating an agreement with the Red regime...
Managers of both teams voiced confidence in their squads last night, Johnson said, "We will demolish those ink-stained wretches of the fourth estate." Adam Clymer '58 of the CRIMSON derided this view, and expressed doubt that the Council would show up for the game...