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Adding insult to injury was the fact that the man who invoked this so-called "21-day" rule was Harlem's Democratic Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, chairman of the Labor and Education Committee and by any standard the House's purest demagogue. Floor Manager Powell attempted to limit debate to two hours; but amid Republican demands for more time, he and Speaker John McCormack decided to permit five hours, despite Powell's lament that the delay would force him to break a $1,500 speaking engagement in Austin, Texas...
Positive Thinking. Harlem's Adam Clayton Powell, chairman of the Education and Labor Committee that had expanded and reported the bill, spoke from personal experience when he observed that "social-welfare power struggles, political friction and public controversy have been spawned." But, Powell claimed extravagantly, the program already had "uplifted and given new hope" to 3,000,000 people who had been "drifting aimlessly through shabby lives." John Lindsay, the Republican mayoral candidate in New York, also acknowledged problems. Then he said: "I think we should look at this rather affirmatively-we should look at the good that these...
...SCOPE (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.).* "Harlem: Summer '65": Jesse Gray, Adam Clayton Powell, James Shabazz and other Negro leaders discuss the possibilities of more Harlem riots this year...
Memory Lane. So far, the coaxers consist largely of Harlem's Democratic Representative Adam Clayton Powell. Other New Yorkers recall Franklin's five years in Congress, where his absenteeism was to become a campaign issue in 1954. Republican Jacob Javits flattened him in their contest for state attorney general, which prompted Columnist Murray Kempton to write last week: "Roosevelt and his sponsors must hope that enough people remember his father and mother, and have forgotten him." Paul Screvane was much milder. Said he of Frank Jr.: "He is a very decent fellow, but I don't know...
Within hours after Wagner's announcement, the line of applicants started forming. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., boosted by the endorsement of Harlem's Adam Clayton Powell, said he was available-"if the right people ask me." Behind Roosevelt stood City Council President Paul R. Screvane, Comptroller Abraham D. Beame, Queens District Attorney Frank D. O'Connor and Manhattan District Attorney Frank S. Hogan...