Word: district
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...severe a measure in light of his treatment of the courts. Still, banishing Powell from the Capitol would probably create more problems than it solved. No Congressman has ever been expelled for contempt of court before, and such a move would doubtless be construed by Powell's Harlem district as a vicious effort to deprive Negroes of their most effective and powerful congressional spokesman. Powell would return home a martyr, and in the new election which followed the vacating of his seat, he would probably be over-whelmingly returned to office...
...expelling Powell, Representative Van Deerlin (D.-Cal.) has recommended that the House exclude him instead. This action would deprive the New York Congressman of his vote but would allow him to keep his seat. Such a measure is attractive but it is also unjust. It would punish Powell's district for the offenses of its congressman, leaving Harlem without a voice in the House for an indefinite period of time...
...year assistant, to show up for a scheduled appearance before the investigating subcommittee. The panel wanted to ask Mrs. Powell, who lives in San Juan, whether she has been violating the law requiring congressional assistants to work either in Washington or in their Congressman's home district. As a result of her failure to appear, Subcommittee Chairman Wayne Hays of Ohio said that he would recommend that she be removed from the congressional payroll, and that steps be initiated to cite her for contempt of Congress...
automatic commitment to a mental institution. In Massachusetts, for example, a manslaughter defendant acquitted for insanity faces indeterminate commitment, often for life. And in the federal District of Columbia, Congress has passed a special law that would certainly commit allegedly insane tax evaders...
This was the second of three Christmas-time championships for Terrell. The weekend before the freshman placed first in the National Juniors in Philadelphia. And after taking the Freshman Intercollegiate title in New York, he went back to Philadelphia to win the Philadelphia District tournament...