Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Between Independence Day and Labor Day, a profound malaise overcame the American people. A kind of psychological Asian flu, it has as its overt symptoms bewilderment about...
Congress recessed last week for its own ten-day version of the Labor Day weekend, its direction so uncertain, its temper so fractious that few would be so bold as to forecast its final record...
...Care." The Senate Labor Committee, on the other hand, rebuked the Administration by implication for its phlegmatic reaction to the urban crisis. Giving Johnson far more than he had asked, it added $200 million to his request for the war on poverty (for a total $2.26 billion), initiated an entirely new two-year, $2.5 billion program, similar to one proposed by the Urban Coalition, to provide jobs for 200,000 slum dwellers, and authorized $300 million for small businesses hurt by riots...
...majority of the Labor Committee was not concerned with the President's feelings. "I don't care," said New York's Republican Jacob Javits. "It's time that at least one congressional committee stood up to the President and let him know that it can see what is needed in the cities and has the guts to go ahead and propose it." Nor is the mood of frustrated independence likely to change after the recess is over. "We not only don't know the answers ourselves," said one Republican Senator, "but we are completely convinced...
...York's equestrian Sherman, Chicago's Lincoln, Boston's Shaw and Washington's Adams Memorial. Diana was his favorite, though, and from the moment Architect Stanford White asked him to sculpt her as a fitting finial for the Garden (then under construction), she was a labor of love, his first nude, his first ideal figure. Saint-Gau dens chose an Irish girl named Nellie Fitzpatrick as his model, made a 6-foot-tall cement study, then scaled it up to an 18-foot statue. Much...