Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Commerce last year at the age of 37, Alexander ("Sandy") Trowbridge surprised many of the business leaders who felt that he lacked the maturity and experience for the job. Despite the creation of the Department of Transportation and the demoralizing prospect that Commerce would be merged with the Labor Department-a Johnson proposal that is now at best dormant-Trowbridge worked a 16-hour day, boosted his department's morale, and performed creditably in one of the Cabinet's least enviable posts...
DEMOCRATS Schism on the Left Eugene McCarthy's presidential challenge may not sunder the Democratic Party, but it has caused some damaging cracks in the liberal coalition of intellectuals and labor and civil rights leaders who make up the Americans for Democratic Action. Last week, after the A.D.A.'s board voted, 65 to 47, to endorse the Minnesota Democrat's campaign against the President, seven of its prominent members angrily resigned...
POVERTY Misery of Vortex Bathed in the unforgiving harshness of massed TV lights, Senator Robert F. Kennedy pounded a table to still the chatter of shabby, tieless white folk crowded into the one-room schoolhouse at Vortex, Ky. The New Yorker, lowest-ranking Democrat on the Senate's Labor and Public Welfare Committee, had come to assess the plight of once proud Appalachian mountaineers who rank today among the poorest of America's poor...
Offensive Coddling. While one such difficulty is unlikely to consign Rockefeller's prospects to the nether regions, it did occur at an awkward time for him. He undoubtedly won further sympathy from labor by refusing to break a strike, but to get his own party's nomination, he needs support from the Republican right-the very segment that would be most offended by his coddling of the sanitationmen's union. Richard Nixon, campaigning in New Hampshire, drew fervent crowd response by siding with Lindsay. "Breaking the law of the state," Nixon declared, "cannot and must...
...owner to take over the 98-year-old company. They remembered only too well what happened to Heinrich Lanz AG, which in 1956, at age 97, was bought out by the U.S.'s Deere & Co. Deere replaced the German management, struck the Lanz name from products, disregarded the labor union - and has almost consistently lost money on Lanz...