Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reuther's seat on the council went to William Pollock of the Textile Workers Union, but another place might be vacated if Reuther wanted it. Meany remarked dispassionately that the U.A.W. chief should register his complaints through "appropriate channels" within the A.F.L.-C.l.O., where they would get a fair hearing. Asked if that constituted leaving the door ajar for Reuther's return to the fold, George said: "I would accept it as that...
...test, as for so many public officials these days, was Viet Nam. For months Romney has declined to take a definite stance, asking time for deep study of the problem that will include an Asian tour later this year (he first visited Viet Nam in 1965). Fair enough. But last week, with the conclusion of his ruminations still far off, Romney began to claw at Lyndon Johnson's Viet Nam policy without offering a hint of possible alternatives...
...delighted partisan audiences with his swinging attacks on Johnson. The Administration's domestic programs, he said, resembled a "20-mule team harnessed at night by a blind, one-armed idiot." There was the New Deal of Franklin Roosevelt, the Fair Deal of Harry Truman, and now the "ordeal" of Lyndon Johnson. He also produced a passable caption for a future Romney administration. "A new generation of progress," he said, "is forming up on the horizon." As usual, Romney laced his talk with moral homilies, and even his discussion of public responsibility carried a churchly ring. He told an Elks...
...basis of my actions rather than someone's idea of what the precepts of my faith are." It was a confrontation reminiscent of John Kennedy's with the Greater Houston Ministerial Association in 1960, where Kennedy convinced many skeptical Protestants that a Roman Catholic could be a fair President...
...more than $16 million, built a fifth new plant and increased employment to 2,900. Reflecting their own confident computations, Wall Street investors have pushed S.D.S. stock up 42 points to $84.50 since October, doubling the value of Pioneer Palevsky's 15% shareholding to $27 million-a pretty fair dividend on his original 1961 investment...