Word: assists
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...bill would create an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that could assist local groups in eliminating job discrimination, make technical studies on the subject, offer conciliation service when requested by employers. Either an individual or a member of the commission could file a complaint of job discrimination, and the commission would investigate the charge and notify the persons or organizations against whom the charge was brought. If two of the five commissioners found that the charge was valid, and the efforts at getting voluntary compliance failed, the commission could file a federal civil suit. If the court found that an unlawful...
...bill would create a Community Relations Service in the Commerce Department to assist communities and individuals in resolving problems of discrimination. The Service could offer its assistance whenever "peaceful relations among the citizens of the community involved are threatened." It would be required to seek the cooperation of local authorities and to keep its activities confidential...
Walter J. Minton '45, president of Putnam's has spent the past three months attempting to gather expert witnesses in the Boston area. He indicated in March that a number of academic figures would assist in the case, possibly including some from Harvard...
Back in Washington, McNamara reported to President Johnson, congressional leaders and the National Security Council, announced to newsmen that because Viet Cong terrorism "has increased very substantially in recent weeks, it is absolutely essential that we consider ways and means through increased economic assistance and in creased military support to assist the government of Viet Nam. We have agreed with them that their regular military forces and their paramilitary forces must be increased in size very substantially and very soon . . . And we consider it desirable to increase by 100% the number of Vietnamese pilots." Again, McNamara stressed that Viet...
...death of Victoria, who never trusted her son with Foreign Office dispatches, Bertie became an ardent practitioner of personal diplomacy, paying "unofficial" visits to the capitals of Europe, where he practiced his charm on rulers, most of whom were his relatives. Magnus credits him with at least an assist in the rapprochement with Russia and the entente with France that British diplomacy achieved before World...