Word: claytons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...answers left behind a trail of disillusionment and downright anger. Urging moderation,, he said the Federal Government must go slowly in enforcing desegregation, using education and persuasion rather than force. He came out flatly (as President Eisenhower had) against the proposal by Harlem's Democratic Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr. to deny federal aid to segregated school districts. Would he use the Army and Navy, if necessary, to enforce the Supreme Court decision? "I think that would be a great mistake," said Stevenson. "That is exactly what brought on the Civil War. It can't be done...
...Paul Hughes, 35, is "base, venal, greedy" and "a louse," who admitted taking money for his fake evidence of crimes by Senator Joe McCarthy and his investigators (TIME, Jan. 30). In all, Hughes collected $10,800 from Joseph L. Rauh Jr., chairman of Americans for Democratic Action, and Editor Clayton Fritchey of the Democratic Digest, who testified that Hughes had fooled them roundly. But last week Hughes was acquitted in his Manhattan trial for perjury...
...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 anti-segregation...
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...
Before the scheme collapsed, said the prosecution, Hughes mulcted Joseph Rauh Jr., chairman of Americans for Democratic Action, out of $8,500 for "expenses" in investigating McCarthy investigators, took another $2,300 from trusting Clayton Fritchey, editor of the Democratic Digest, and gulled the Washington Post and Times Herald into writing-but not quite publishing-a twelve-part series "exposing" McCarthy...