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Unless all signs fail, this session of Congress will mark the nth time that Federal aid to education has been blocked by the irrelevant demands of pressure groups. In past years, it was certain self-styled Negro leaders--notably Adam Clayton: Powell, Jr.--who sabotaged the program. By inserting amendments prohibiting aid to segregated schools, Powell no doubt gained some votes in Harlem. He also insured enough Southern opposition to defeat the whole measure...
Harlem's Democratic Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, whose frenetic schedule sometimes even includes a House roll call, was occupied on other fronts last week. In Manhattan, he launched a $450,000 expansion project for his Abyssinian Baptist Church, threatened three collections per Sunday service until the crash campaign was completed. In the capital for a radio interview the same day. Preacher Powell, who has been indicted but never convicted in a still pending income-tax-evasion case, exuded brotherly love for Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa. Said the House Education and Labor Committee chairman: "Mr. Hoffa has completely vindicated himself...
Headquarters representatives of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. were conspicuously absent when Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr., new chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, called a get-acquainted meeting for union representatives and lobbyists. Very much in evidence in a front-row seat was Sidney Zagri, top Washington mouthpiece for Jimmy Hoffa's Teamsters. A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany's reasons for boycotting the meeting were twofold: 1) he refuses to let A.F.L.-C.I.O. officers fraternize with Teamsters, and 2) his opinion of Racist Powell's potentialities as guardian of labor's affairs in Congress: "Terrible...
...fellow Congressmen were granted secret ballots, Harlem's handsome Adam Clayton Powell would doubtless be voted the most talkative, least effective member of the House of Representatives. Nor does his gaping absence record (he missed 51% of roll calls in 1960) make congressional hearts grow fonder. Negro Democrat Powell campaigned for Republican Dwight Eisenhower in" 1956, campaigned for Democrat Jack Kennedy in 1960. He is under indictment for filing a fraudulent income-tax return. But because his Harlem constituents, spellbound by years of racist oratory, have sent him to Congress for nine uninterrupted terms. Congressman Powell last week inherited...
...racist, the flamboyant Mr. Powell, presenting the Powell amendment to the aid-to-education bill," said he. But in the end, even the Eisenhower Administration "agreed with my amendment." The 1,600 diners loved it, but the New York Times demurred: "To make a hero out of Adam Clayton Powell ... is to reduce politics to the lowest common denominator, an action entirely unworthy of the high principles and the inspiring projects of the Kennedy Administration...