Word: adams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attack on Randolph, for example, calls to mind Meany's dispute with Rep. Adam Clayton Powell. When segregationist Rep. Burdick of North Carolina retired in 1959 as Chairman of the mightly House Committee on Education and Welfare, Meany opposed Powell's succession violently. Powell's pro-labor voting record (and Burdick's anti-labor tally) were apparently inconsequential...
Conceived by Jean Monnet and in force for 3½ years, the Common Market aims to eliminate trade barriers among the six countries-and ultimately to integrate their economies. In basic economic theory, it is as old as Adam Smith, as familiar as the United States-the world's largest common market. It aims at free trade within the largest possible area, enabling industries to cut costs, labor to specialize, capital to move freely where needed in a mass market-to the economic benefit of producer, worker and consumer. But set against Europe's age-old rivalries...
...watching a corps of almost nude ballerinas rehearsing as slave dancers-and waiting. Taylor did not show. Eddie Fisher arrived in a green Rolls-Royce and a matching polo shirt and began to mumble apologies. Spouting uncourtly remarks and parliamentary rhetoric, nine lawmakers-including New York's Adam Clayton Powell, chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor, and North Carolina's Harold D. Cooley, chairman of the House Agriculture Committee-left the set. The remaining three loyally remained and were finally ushered into Cleopatra's dressing room...
...disintegration of the medieval mixture of Scripture and philosophy, political power and spiritual prestige. "From the standpoint of the Mater et Magistra encyclical," he says, "what could be clearer than that the path from the Thomistic theory of a just price based upon labor value, to the theory of Adam Smith, guaranteeing social justice by the automatic balances of a free market, descends steeply from the heights of justice to the morass of private greed...
...Though Adams became skilled in the subtleties of diplomacy, he remained at heart a pragmatic, hidebound Yankee who viewed Europe's sophisticated society with suspicion. Far from being awed by Franklin, who was lionized by the French, Adams found the old man to be more interested in wining and dining than in the job of persuading the French to help the embattled young nation fight against the British. "The Life of Dr. Franklin was a Scene of continual discipation," wrote Adams. "He came home at all hours from Nine to twelve O Clock at night." Though Adams faithfully recorded...