Word: adams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democrats. Period." Sheppard was explaining the action, just completed, of the House Democratic Patronage Committee in firing a Negro employee of the House post office and a Negro member of the Capitol police force. Cause for dismissal: both had received their appointments through New York's Democratic Representative Adam Clayton Powell Jr., a Negro who supported Republican Dwight Eisenhower for President because of his civil-rights record...
...House Speaker Sam Rayburn from N.A.A.C.P. Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins came a letter urging against party punishment for Adam Clayton Powell. Reason: it might give the impression "that the Democratic Party is taking such action because of Mr. Powell's race, and also because of his efforts to secure passage of civil-rights legislation...
...graceful and strong in the role of the town bed-warmer, while Mary Wild looks excellent as she broods sadly through the role of the grieving mother. The director, Beverly Bourns, molds her cast with a good eye for placing people around an efficient, simple stage, designed by Donald Adam. The costumes by Marjorie Meeks, are appropriate...
Longtime Democrat Adam Clayton Powell Jr., a Harlem minister and one of three Negroes in the U.S. House of Representatives,* skillfully cadged a cigarette from Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty one afternoon last week, flecked a speck of dust from his faultlessly tailored flannels and turned to face the assembled White House reporters. He had just come from a conference with President Eisen hower, and he had something to report: this year he likes...
...fated Powell Amendment to the school-construction bill (no federal money for segregated schools) and his battle for its adoption during the last session of Congress made the name of Powell a Negro household word. 3) Sensitive to the slightest change in the Negro political pulse, Adam Powell doubtless feels there is political mileage to be made in an early jump toward the G.O.P...