Word: connors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pious Thoughts." All week long L.B.J. kept his blowtorch trained on the negotiators. He had Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz looking over United Steelworkers' President I. W. Abel's shoulder and Commerce Secretary John Connor hovering near Top Management Negotiator R. Conrad Cooper. When that tactic flagged, he sent Wirtz over to hound management and Connor to rile labor. After a breakfast meeting with congressional leaders, he sent them trotting out of the White House clutching conveniently typed statements calling for a settlement. Almost minute by minute he received progress reports from his aides...
...LOUIS, Municipal Opera: Donald O'Connor plays in Little...
...Government is growing impatient with the unions. Commerce Secretary John Connor has criticized the key union in the strike, the Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association, for making "unreasonable and inflationary" wage demands. Too often, say some Washington officials, the shipping executives give in to such demands because they know most of the costs will be carried by the Government. In fact, almost 75% of the seamen's wages are paid by federal subsidies. Critics believe that if the Government would spend less to subsidize wages and more to subsidize modernization and automation, it might have a solution...
EVERYTHING THAT RISES MUST CONVERGE, by Flannery O'Connor. These last brilliant stories by the late Miss O'Connor give no quarter to pity and seldom, even, to compassion. Instead, they illustrate the author's favorite themes: the bonds between parent and child, between the tyrannical weak and the consuming strong, and between Southerners-white and Negro-leashed in hatred to each other...
...White House for breakfast, urged them to talk up the news of rising profits, paychecks and production. On the way out, Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield lost no time in assuring the press that the nation's economic picture is "excellent." Next day, Commerce Secretary John Connor told the National Press Club: "Business is great, and it's going to get even better." At the same time, speaking in Manhattan to the American Marketing Association, Chief Presidential Economist Gardner Ackley forecast that "continued solid advance is still ahead of us through 1965 and into...