Word: congressmen
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Under questioning, however, Boone could not state definitely whether Southern states or Congressmen, for instance, could stop Service Corps projects in their area. Such projects, by improving Negro education, could possibly shift the balance of electoral power...
...great deal of confusion has surrounded the whole question of a National Service Corps since several Congressmen denounced the "Domestic Peace Corps" project set up in Harlem under the aegis of Rep. Adam Clayton Powell...
...peace march was a failure. Most Congressmen listened to the student-visitors, but of course none changed their positions. Only the known friends of the peace movement, like Rep. Robert Kastenmeier (D.Wisc.), showed enthusiasm. But even Kastenmeier warned, almost sadly, that decision-making in foreign affairs "is very difficult to influence." He added that the students must abjure emotionalism, and destroy the image of "extremism" if they were ever to have any effect in the political world...
Being a collection of mortals, some Congressmen are lazy or incompetent, others drink too much, some have a trained eye for a trim ankle, and a few-are not overly honest. The House is generally tolerant of all such failings, which makes it all the more unusual that the House is actually trying to do something about Harlem's Adam Clayton Powell...
Criticism of the domestic Peace Corps has come both from Harvard students who visited the site of its operations, and from conservative Congressmen...