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...general membership meeting of Students for a Democratic Society was interrupted Friday night by the unsuccessful efforts of a group of Young Republicans to elect one of their number to an SDS co-chairmanship...
McCormack's most palpable failure so far this session came in his handling of the Adam Clayton Powell affair. Deeply averse to any break with precedent, he unsuccessfully resisted both the Democratic-caucus move to strip Powell of his committee chairmanship, and the full House action to take away his seat pending a formal investigation. McCormack's stand particularly irritated young, liberal Congressmen, who have been increasingly unhappy about the Speaker's intractably traditionalist position. What McCormack failed to consider was that many a colleague was under heavy pressure from constituents to chastise the flamboyant Negro Congressman...
...Faculty and for activities of administration. The other goals sought are $4 million for new chairs in criminal law and urban legal studies; $4 million for additional financial aid to students; and $1 million for increased endowment for the library. Professor Austin Scott has accepted the Honorary Chairmanship of this campaign. The National Chairman and effective leader of the strong committee, which has now been organized to conduct the drive in all parts of the country, is another member of this Board, and also a former teacher at the Law School, Mr. Robert Amory, Jr. Although the effort has only...
...they did-in part perhaps because of a Lou Harris poll reporting that public confidence in Congress had plummeted from 71% a year ago to 54%. When the Democratic caucus convened, Udall offered a resolution to strip Powell of his chairmanship, stipulating that he would nonetheless battle on the House floor to seat Powell pending a probe of his conduct. Declared Udall: "The people have the right to pick the Representative they want, but they do not have the right to tell the House who shall be chairman of a powerful committee...
...McCormack substitute" devised by the Speaker, which would have merely suspended Powell from his chairmanship pending investigation, went down in humiliating defeat, 122 to 88. Then, in a thunderclap of ayes, Udall's resolution was shouted through by voice vote. The action handed Powell's chairmanship to the committee's second-ranking Democrat, Carl Perkins, a quiet Kentuckian and moderate liberal...