Word: congressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That judgment was disapprovingly shared by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. In a heavily documented 105-page report released last week, the commission accused the Administration of pulling back on school desegregation. The bipartisan body, established by Congress in 1957 and now chaired by University of Notre Dame President the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, charged the Administration with attempting to justify its recent actions with statistics that give "an overly optimistic, misleading and inaccurate picture of the scope of desegregation actually achieved." It described the Administration's actions as "a major retreat in the struggle to achieve meaningful school...
...split was painfully evident two weeks ago when Wilson turned up at the annual meeting in Portsmouth of the Trades Union Congress, which represents 155 unions and 8,875,381 workers. Sullen delegates voted a resolution condemning Wilson's plan to extend his vigorous wage-restraint law indefinitely. Then Wilson delivered a tough warning ("Every penny must be earned") that may have appealed to his nationwide TV audience but only enraged the union chiefs. "Well, the writing's on the wall, now," said T.U.C. Delegate Cyril Philips. "The Tories will go back into power next time because...
...labor leader, Vic Feather must try to hold sway over 155 fiercely independent unions that often prefer to behave, as one union boss put it, like "baronies in a kingless kingdom." At Portsmouth, where Feather was elected to a four-year term as head of the Trades Union Congress last month, the barons were flexing their muscles. "The problem is not that we have too many strikes," cried one official, "but that we don't have enough...
...direction, and those who stand to lose by it-among them Wall Street corporations, the oil industry, and universities and hospitals-have been deluging Washington with complaints. Last week, as the Senate Finance Committee began considering the measure, the Nixon Administration presented its own, less stringent tax recommendations, informing Congress that some of the House reforms and tax reductions go too far, too fast...
...Against Investment. The Administration's aim, Secretary Kennedy explained to a mostly hostile committee, is to counter the House bill's "bias against investment in favor of consumption." That favoritism, he complained, "could impede economic growth by curtailing the incentive to make productive investments." Accordingly, said Kennedy, Congress should cut taxes on individuals by only $4.8 billion a year instead of $7.3 billion, and the total corporate tax intake should rise by only $3.5 billion instead of $4.9 billion. "We simply do not know enough about the future to commit ourselves" to any larger tax cuts, the secretary...