Word: appalachia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...billion aid-to-Appalachia program. The total House vote...
...More power to the little town of Hennepin, Ill., and to Jones & Laughlin for locating their new plant there [July 9]. Andrews, N.C., is also a little town. It is one of the most economically stagnant areas of Appalachia. Poor they may be, but Andrews residents are proud too. Under the leadership of Mayor Percy B. Ferebee, a development corporation was formed, and $200,000 was raised. With this as bait, Andrews in two years signed a furniture company. Today, construction is under way on a factory that will employ 900-about three times as many men as there...
...named Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. to be Under Secretary of Commerce early in March 1963, he had every intention of boosting him eventually into the No. 1 spot at Commerce, then held by Luther Hodges. To give Roosevelt some show case exposure before the promotion, Kennedy sent him into Appalachia with orders to find a prescription for poverty there. But a year later, when Roosevelt submitted his 93-page report. Lyndon Johnson was in the White House...
Lyndon praised Roosevelt's Appalachia work, used it as a base for much of his own anti-poverty program. But the President did not consider "Frank" to be of Cabinet caliber, and last January Johnson selected Drug Executive John T. Connor to replace the retiring Hodges. Said Roosevelt: "I was disappointed in not being picked, but who wouldn't be? I'm objective enough to know that a businessman should fill that office." Connor and Roosevelt got along all right, but the Secretary wanted to have a top deputy of his own choosing. Roosevelt...
Vast Thrusts. Earlier in the session, Congress had steamrolled ahead several other Johnson-sponsored antipoverty bills-the Manpower Training and Development Act, a proposed Administration on Aging, passage of aid to Appalachia. The new bills call for vast new federal thrusts into the area of federal paternalism. In F.D.R.'s day, both undoubtedly would have been denounced as socialistic, if not part of a downright Communist scheme to undermine American private enterprise and individual initiative...