Word: adamant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plate. Harlem has mothered a strange and varied brood: Bojangles Robinson, tap-dancing down Broadway; Sugar Ray Robinson in a fuchsia Cadillac; Josephine Baker in a banana-laden G-string; pro-Communist Vito Marcantonio, haranguing a street-corner crowd; Father Divine in his special heavens, and-most recently-Adam Clayton Powell Jr., pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church...
Last week in Manhattan's Foley Square courthouse, the case of United States of America v. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. went to the jury. Charged with filing a fraudulent 1951 income tax return for his estranged wife. Jazz Pianist Hazel Scott, Powell faced a theoretical $10,000 fine, five years in jail. The long-delayed case, which had been under federal investigation for more than four years, was haphazardly prosecuted by the Government; two of three original charges against Powell were thrown out during the trial when the government failed to support the charges. Powell himself was brilliantly defended...
...long before that institution went for Keynes and Laski. With a somewhat jaundiced eye a contemporary remembers him there at 20 as "a student of economic sciences, a member of an exclusive club of whisky drinkers, a dancer of the tango, a playboy, a reader of Adam Smith, and a wearer of the arrogant colored vests introduced by Wilde and Disraeli." When he got home, he turned the family hacienda into a lucrative model of science and mechanization, went back to economics as a director of Peru's Reserve Bank, making it into a modern central bank. He dabbled...
Into a Manhattan federal courtroom last week strode the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Jr., 51, pastor of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church, longtime (eight terms) U.S. Democratic Congressman and alltime prince of New York City's big (900,000) Negro community. Handsome, carefully tailored Adam Powell was uncommonly nervous. After many and sundry delays the U.S. had finally haled him before a jury on two-year-old charges of dodging federal income taxes. The indictment charged that Powell, in filing 1951 and 1952 tax returns for himself and his estranged wife, Jazz Pianist Hazel Scott, had defrauded...
What, asked a reporter, did Meany think about the likelihood that Harlem Democrat Adam Clayton Powell Jr. will become chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee next year? "Terrible," said forthright George Meany. "He has a bad voting and absentee record. He uses his position to stir up racial hatred. It's terrible to think that we will have a man like that as chairman...