Word: granted
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...harsh words that it appeared face could not be saved on either side. Called in to mediate the dispute, U.S. Labor Under Secretary James J. Reynolds was stymied not only by the black v. white impasse but more importantly by Memphis Mayor Henry Loeb's adamant refusal to grant a payroll checkoff for union dues. How did Reynolds break the ice? By using the Federal Credit Union, which is employee-owned but federally administered. As he reasoned, the City of Memphis had no right to prevent its employees from designating some portion of their wages for the credit union...
...Harvard Education Project has received a $5500 grant for a series of seminars next year criticizing the University...
Jeffrey L. Elman '69, HEP director, stated yesterday that he had received the gift from the Stern Family Foundation of Washington, D.C. He said that $1500 of the grant was allotted to Project-related research he is doing this summer, and the remainder will be used to pay salaries to section men in the seminars. There might be some money left over, which would be used next spring to finance the writing of preliminary reports for the HEP, Elman added...
Elman announced the seminars last week, before he had any money. If the grant had not come through, he explained yesterday; "we would have gone ahead with it, hoping to get section men to work for no money...
...believe we should extend the range of young peoples' participation in public life," he said. "I believe we should move forward--now--to grant the vote to 18-year olds...