Word: adams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chances of the bill's passing may be hurt by its being mistakenly connected with Rep. Adam Clayton Powell (D-N.Y.), who is chairman of the House Education Committee. Powell is a sponsor of the so-called Domestic Peace Corps, a Harlem project which has recently come under Congressional fire. Several persons have confused the privately-run Domestic Peace Corps will Kennedy's National Service Corps, and this confusion is expected to add to the difficulties of the success of the bill...
...others drink too much, some have a trained eye for a trim ankle, and a few-are not overly honest. The House is generally tolerant of all such failings, which makes it all the more unusual that the House is actually trying to do something about Harlem's Adam Clayton Powell...
...last decade. All this has contributed to the feeling expressed last week by one disgusted colleague: "He is a demagogue, a high liver, a playboy and a charlatan.'' Said another: "I don't know exactly how you decide who's the worst Congressman, but Adam's certainly in the finals...
...Washington, Rep. H. R. Gross (R-lowa) has termed the Corps' $157,000 expenditure for personnel "fantastic" and Sen. John J. Williams (R.Del.) has criticized the project's connections with Rep. Adam Clayton Powell (D-N.Y.). The project is being conducted entirely with in Powell's Congressional district...
...Corps has come under strong Congressional criticism recently. Rep. H.R. Gross (R-Iowa) termed ACT's $157,000 expenditure for personnel "ridiculous" and Sen. John R. Williams (R-Del.) criticized the project's connections with Rep. Adam Clayton Powell...