Powell Seated Return Urged for Powell by Conyers
Rep. John Conyers Jr says Negro congressman Adam Clayton Powell has little chance of being seated unless he returns to Washington promptly to press his case. He notes a 222 to 202 vote to exclude and warns House sentiment may not change. Powell, in Bahama on Bimini, awaits court action as appeals proceed.
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Washington
Adam Clayton Powell
John Conyers Jr
D-Mich
Detroit
Conyers
House
Powell
Select Committee
Rep
Emanuel Celler
D-N.y
Celler
Bimini
I House
Supreme Court
High Court
Harlem Democrat
Appeals Court
Charles C. Diggs Jr
Frank Reeves
U Ted
Teamsters Vote Split on National Trucking Contract
Unofficial returns show 16 000 against and 10 000 in favor as union members weigh a three year deal affecting 450 000 drivers and 12 000 firms. Chicago area truckers lock out over wage demands while officials caution on next steps if rejected.
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Washington
Teamsters
Es Ae
Los
Chicago
Lons Jat
Secretary of Labor
W. Willard Wirtz
Labor Department
United States
King Plans Vietnam Summer Project
Dr. Martin Luther King announces a Vietnam Summer Project to halt the war. The plan calls for 10,000 volunteers trained by 200 staff to sponsor referendums, boycott war goods, antidraft activities, and pressure Congress to hold hearings.
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John J. Mullins
Cambridge
Mass
Martin Luther King
U.S
Ramparts Magazine
Chester Hartman
Harvard
Department For City Planning
Hartman
Vietnam
Svetlana Describes Tumultuous Life in Memoirs
Newsweek reports Svetlana Stalina will reveal a turbulent family life and a sense of not belonging. The memoirs begin in Moscow in 1963, cover Stalin's paranoid reactions to his wife’s death, and her own 16 year old discovery of the cause, with Kennan praising the work.
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New York
Svetlana Stalina
Joseph Stalin
Newsweek Magazine
Moscow
Stalin
Svetlana
Stuart Johnson
Locust Valley
Long Island
Switzerland
Harper
Newsweek
Jacob
Wassily
the Magazine
George F. Kennan
U.S
Kennan
United States
Cone Mills strike votes set for April 30 in North Carolina
Textile Workers Union of America officials announced strike votes on April 30 at seven Cone Mills plants in North Carolina. TWUA said members at two Greensboro plants, two Haw River plants, and one each at Salisbury, Gibsonville, and Reidsville would vote, potentially affecting about 8,000 workers.
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Greensboro
Cone Mills
North Carolina
Textile Workers Union of America
TWUA
Haw River
Salisbury
Gibsonville
Reidsville
Scott Hoyman
Twua Southern
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