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...members of the U.S. Senate on the spot with the nomination of Charles M. Meriwether, 49, to be director of the Export-Import Bank-and the Senate did not like it a bit. Alabaman Meriwether was an acknowledged segregationist and 1950 campaign manager for Senatorial Candidate John Crommelin, racist and anti-Semite. Oregon's Wayne Morse suggested -and Meriwether stoutly denied-that he was a reformed alcoholic and a onetime Ku KIux Klansman. Meriwether's political know-how and his experience in the insurance business seemed to be his only positive qualifications...
...Orleans had been left alone, token racial integration ordered for two of the city's elementary schools would have proceeded last year with a minimum of disorder. But in Baton Rouge, cowboy-songster Governor Jimmie H. Davis cranked the Louisiana legislature into paroxysms of racist sentiment, and it spewed out masses of bills aimed at grabbing control of the city's whole school system and cutting off pay to teachers at the integrated schools. The Federal District Court fought back with armloads of restraining orders, finally enjoined some 700 state officials, including the Governor and the entire legislature...
...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...
...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 the chairmanship of the powerful House Committee on Education and Labor...
...speech, Adam Powell was graciously modest. "For years I have been the demagogue, the 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...