Word: extended
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...audience, Dirksen cried: "You may be allergic to ballet dancing, or driving a truck, or operating a filling station, but have a look anyway. Be fascinated just to look at work." Even the pas de Dirksen failed to enlist support against the Administration bill requesting $1.5 billion to extend the war on poverty−the pending business of the Senate...
Surely the duration will extend beyond Lyndon Johnson's presidency and many , more to come. Through legal action, the road from shantytown to voting booth has been cleared. Now Los Angeles has shown that the road from deprivation to decent schools, jobs and homes, may be even more tortuous and lonely. There are no short cuts, and in the aftermath of violence the people of Watts may begin to grasp that fact. Many did. "I don't want anyone to give me anything," said a Negro laborer. "All I want...
...North is an army without generals−without captains−almost without sergeants." For this lack of responsible leadership he found a cause that most politicians are too polite to mention: "Too many Negroes who have succeeded in climbing the ladder of education and well-being have failed to extend their hand to help their fellows on the rungs below. Civil rights leaders cannot with sit-ins change the fact that adults are illiterate. Marches do not create jobs for their children...
...lumber and to hire craftsmen. And, of course, more homes and apartments inevitably mean more money spent on furniture and durables. The new legislation will generate economic results in two other areas. An education bill to be signed soon will extend federal school-construction aid to secondary and elementary levels, opening the way for up to $1 billion more in new construction. It will also raise teacher salaries-and spending power -and provide more funds for the textbooks, audio-visual aids and laboratory equipment that already constitute a major part of the $1.7 billion a year school-equipment-and-supply...
...Approved, in a House Labor subcommittee, a bill to increase the minimum wage from $1.25 to $1.75 an hour by 1968 and to extend coverage to 6.1 million more workers-including farm workers for the first time. President Johnson had recommended only an extension of the $1.25 wage base to some 4.6 million additional workers...