Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Irish nationalist from Galway. she was born in Concord, N.H., in 1890, educated in Bronx schools, and became a Socialist at 15 under her mother's maiden name of Gurley. A slim, blue-eyed girl with soft brown hair who wore a flaming red tie around her shirtwaist collar, she demanded among other things that all children be supported by the Government, thus freeing women of dependence...
...reached 15%, into a job market that is already crowded. Age is also a problem in the unions, where labor leaders have grown old, tired and divided, generally failing to groom young men to take their places. Unimaginative union leadership has failed to organize the growing ranks of white-collar workers, and union membership-now on the rise after a long decline-stands at about 22.2% of the labor force...
Across the Line. Dixmoor, just south of Chicago's city limits, had hardly seemed ripe for racial trouble. The average family income there is $5,000 to $7,000. Some 60% of Dixmoor's 3,100 residents are Negroes, many of whom are white-collar workers living in $10,000-to-$15,000 single-family homes or in attractive new apartment buildings. Three of Dixmoor's six governing trustees are Negroes, as are half of its part-time police force. But for all that, civil rights leaders in the Dixmoor-Harvey area charge that Negroes are discriminated...
...where else," asks Director Tom Hirschberg, "can students find that today's breakthroughs in the research laboratory are tonight's lessons in the classroom?" "Far-Out U.," as students call it, enrolls half of Sperry's engineering and science staff in 34 advanced courses. For blue-collar workers eager to escape possible technological unemployment, the company designed 14 courses (Basic Electronics, for example) and several textbooks...
...87th annual convention jammed a dozen Manhattan hotels with a lot of strangers, and also three Supreme Court Justices and the President of the U.S. From breakfast to banquet, 7,000 lawyers heard 600 speeches on everything from "Sex and the Single Premium"* to "The Defense of the White-Collar Accused." Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy announced a new Office of Criminal Justice to improve criminal procedures and perhaps soften the Department of Justice's reputation as what he called "The Department of Prosecution...