Word: adams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...code extends beyond Black Muslims--deep into the Negro community. It is a set of rules which designates the political and religious leaders of the community and defines the loyalty and respect which individuals owe to these leaders. The "code" allows Adam Clayton Powell (D.N.Y.) and William Dawson (D-III.) to be re-elected year after year and keeps Negro ministers in their pulpits until they are carried to the funeral parlor...
Democratic Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr. is the most powerful and probably the most popular political figure in Harlem. And he keeps that status even though he has been on the lam from Harlem, and New York State, for nearly two years...
...involved an exotic mixture of personalities. On the dais waiting to deliver their addresses, Protestant Theologian Paul Tillich sat with that outrider of neutralism, Nobel-prize-winning Chemist Linus Pauling. At another panel, Kremlinologist George Kennan, onetime Ambassador to Russia and Yugoslavia, clashed with Dr. Adam Schaff, the leading Marxist theoretician of Poland...
Once upon a time in 1960, New York Democratic Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, 56, called a Harlem housewife named Esther James a "bagwoman," meaning, in Harlem patois, that she was a graft collector for the police department. Mrs. James, declaring her innocence, won a $46,500 libel judgment against him, but thanks to his intricate legal dodges, it may be a long time before she collects. Nonetheless, Mrs. James's bag, in theory at least, should be comfortably full. Last week the State Supreme Court in Manhattan awarded her an extra $163,500, as a result of Adam...
...made out of Adam's rib. Literal acceptance of such Biblical statements is the hallmark of fundamentalism, and south Georgia is a stronghold of it. Last week twelve Episcopal bishops from as far away as Montana launched a "Bishops' Crusade for Christ" in south Georgia, attacking "anthropoid religion," as H. L. Mencken used to call...