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Rustin also commented on the recent exclusion of Rep. Adam Clayton Powell (D.N.Y.) from his seat in Congress. "Although I questioned his behavior, I must condemn the emotional and unconstitutional behavior of congress in the matter," he said. Whether Congress excluded Powell from racist motives is immaterial, Rustin said. What matters is that Negroes interpret it as racism, he explained...
...week Adam Clayton Powell kept New York in an uproar over whether he would return to Harlem from his Bimini exile on Palm Sunday. In the end, he disappointed his followers by deciding to tarry a while in his island sanctuary...
Sophisticated Dangers. Plaguing Turner even more than the sheer volume of mergers, though, is the changing nature of such activity. Once, most corporate marriages were either vertical (between suppliers and customers) or horizontal (between competitors). The Sherman and Clayton antitrust acts defined the terms for such mergers, and the Supreme Court interpreted the definitions in their strictest sense. Laws and precedent are much murkier regarding the "conglomerate" unions that now account for 70% of merger activity...
...most significant question still to be settled in the Adam Clayton Powell case is whether the House of Representatives had the constitutional right to deny him admission for the specific offenses with which he was charged. While his lawyers raised this issue in federal court last week, Powell himself unexpectedly became the target of a political challenge in his Harlem fiefdom...
...tired of working as a "Negro architect" with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. His hatred for whites as well as many of his fellow Negroes is apparently inexhaustible. On the other hand, his love knows no bounds for the likes of Mao Tse-tung, Malcolm X, Gamal Abdel Nasser, and Adam Clayton Powell...