Word: daniels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Apropos of Adam Clayton Powell, alias "Daniel" [Sept. 30]. Am I mistaken, or didn't ministers use to preach the Gospel from their pulpits on Sunday morning? Apparently Mr. Powell feels that the denunciation and abasement of his House Education and Labor Committee as "racists" is more important than God's word. MARK J. HARDCASTLE King of Prussia...
...been Maryland's Congressman-at-Large since the office was created in 1960. He holds a spotless pro-civil rights and pro-labor record with a 100 ADA rating. He is young and looks forceful. He had the support of both of Maryland's liberal Democratic senators -- Daniel Brewster, who ran against Wallace in 1964, and Joseph Tydings, the Kennedy-style junior senator who defeated machine man Louis L. Goldstein in the same year. Tydings was making a bid to take over the party in the state from the present governor, Millard Tawes, who at 72 has already served...
...hours after Powell entered his closed-door confrontation with the rebellious committee, the chamber was opened. The lions were licking their chops. Oddly enough, Daniel was also smacking his lips. Later, in his office, Powell sipped-appropriately-at a Jack Daniel, without soda, and allowed that "the noose slipped...
...Plants. As for Powell's political future, ironically he can only gain from his foray into the lions' den. Elected to his eleventh term in the House in 1964 by a 9-to-l margin, he has always been, in the eyes of his constituents, an audacious Daniel in the white man's Congress...
Even so, Dirksen refused to give up on the Amen Amendment. "I will not let it die," he said, adding that a national organization is already being formed by such Protestant leaders as Daniel Poling and Billy Graham to carry on the fight in the 90th Congress...