Word: labor
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...wiretapping, editorial writers somehow forgot that Bob Kennedy defended the right of Americans to send material aid to North Vietnam and fought bills to cut back the Supreme Court's landmark criminal procedure decisions. They refused to admit that the Bob Kennedy who relentlessly exposed the costs of labor racketeering was the same man who assaulted apartheid on it's home territory. They seemed to forget that the drive for a nuclear non-proliferation treaty began only after Kennedy publicly raised the issue in a 1965 Senate speech. They didn't see that Kennedy meant as much to the frenzied...
...Robert Kennedy was one of the few, and surely the most effective of America's political leaders who liberated themselves from the strangling moralisms of the 1950s. Bob Kennedy got over Communist watching, shucked the blinders of Cold War interventionism, and found ghetto residents more enlightening Congressional witnesses than labor racketeers. Sometime in the decade before his death, Bob Kennedy put the Red threat and the New York Daily News headlines in the back of his mind, took a long look at the American people and decided the needed help. He may not have lived long enough to transmit...
Harvard gave honorary degrees also to John H. Finley '25, retiring as Master of Eliot House; and two Law School alumni, Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz and Associate Justice William J. Brennan Jr. of the United States Supreme Court...
...Willard Wirtz received his A.B. from Beloit College in 1933 and his Harvard Law degree in 1937. During World War II, he served on the War Labor Board, and was chairman of the Wage Stabilization Board in 1946. In 1961, President Kennedy appointed him Undersecretary of Labor and in 1962, when Secretary Arthur Goldberg resigned, Kennedy promoted Wirtz to the Cabinet...
William J. Brennan Jr. was appointed to the Supreme Court in October, 1956 by President Eisenhower. Born in Newark in 1906, he graduated from Penn in 1928, and Harvard Law in 1931, and became first a labor lawyer and later a judge in New Jersey. At an alumni luncheon at Harvard Law School yesterday, Brennan cited a breakdown in communication between dissenters and the decision-makers in this country...