Word: adams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Claus, Robin Hood, a Chinese warlord and the late John Barrymore. Over 70, Skeffington decides to run for re-election as mayor of the nameless big city, where the candidates usually share three qualifications ("All were Democrats, all were Irish, all were Catholics"). The old campaigner invites his nephew Adam to tag along and get acquainted with politics. It is through Adam's eyes that one sees the great old pro and his enemies go into action...
...main reason I went into politics," Skeffington tells Adam, "was because it was the quickest way out of the cellar and up the ladder." Skeffington never forgets that there are plenty of votes to be picked up, back in the cellars of poverty, with new dentures, a pair of eyeglasses, some funeral money or a job. He runs on two planks: 1) "All Ireland must be free"; 2) "Trieste belongs to Italy...
...schools is today" and that "the Supreme Court in reaching its [antisegregation] decision . . . specifically provided that there be gradual implementation." (Prospects that Congress would agree brightened last week, then grew dimmer. Under pressure from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and New York's Representative Adam Clayton Powell, organized labor, which had apparently supported Ike's stand, began to backtrack. At week's end Walter Reuther made it clear that unless the Administration promised to withhold federal funds from segregated schools his powerful United Auto Workers would throw its influence behind a filibuster-provoking...
Late this month Attorney General Brownell will send to the Congress specific proposals for the fact-finding commission and other civil-rights legislation, e.g., a stronger right-to-vote law. A group of Congressmen led by Pennsylvania Republican Hugh Scott and New York Democrat Adam Clayton Powell, a Negro, has been mapping plans for bringing the Administration program to a floor vote...
...direction, the acting, and Donald Adam's imaginative lighting prove that the Canterbury Players have enough talent to mount a highly satisfactory production. Even their choice of A Sleep of Prisoners may please those who like literary puzzles. They will find the play well worth an hour and a half of their time...