Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Health, Education and Welfare. HEW, which opposes such precipitous transfers, may also get VISTA, the Community Action Program's Upward Bound, and neighborhood health centers. Legal services may go to the Justice Department, which does not want them. The Senate also may give the Job Corps to the Labor Department...
When 1967 stories linked Missouri Senator Edward V. Long with unsavory labor leaders, reporters asked Long what the exposés might mean to his career. Long replied: "I see the implications. Don't think I was born yesterday." Long was born July 18, 1908, and last week Missouri Democrats took his Senate seat away...
...legislation. Unruh, no friend of Fellow Democrat Burns, called assemblymen to meet in defiance of the order. Despite a Republican boycott, the Democrats managed to pass two bills whose legality is thus automatically in question. Since one of the bills benefits workers injured on their jobs, Unruh expects labor unions to try to prove their validity in court...
...with either men or movements that he found wholly alien to his upbringing. Partly because he convinced himself that he was at least a "cerebral" socialist, but mostly because he had been half-promised a peerage, he bolted the Conservative Party in 1948 and stood for Parliament as a Labor candidate in working-class North Croydon...
...altar," he noted, "and they probably regard me as a very doubtful old horse." He lost the election, of course, and when he returned to London, half-angry and half-shamed, he poured out his feelings in an article in the Spectator that alienated him from the Labor hierarchy and forever spoiled his chances of gaining a peerage...