Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aide brings his first salary check as President of the U.S.: "Call often." And George Bernard Shaw, in December of that year, responding to a request for his sentiment of the season: "Santa Claus be blowed!" Winston Churchill's scornful one-word description of Britain's postwar Labor Government: "Queuetopia." And President Harry Truman, in December 1950, writing to the music critic who had panned his daughter Margaret's singing: "Some day I hope to meet you. When that happens you'll need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes, and perhaps...
Appropriations for the poverty program seemed more vulnerable than ever, although Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz said that out of 35,000 youths taking job training in cities hit by riots, only 20 had been arrested. Of the 12,000 students in Office of Economic Opportunity programs in the affected cities, according to Sargent Shriver, only six had been arrested. Senator Edward Brooke pointed out what everyone...
Some businessmen have already joined the effort. An organization called New Detroit representing all sectors of the community, was formed to assist the city's restoration. The National Urban Coalition, representing industry, labor, local government, churches and civil rights groups, organized and issued an ambitious manifesto for reform. In city halls, state houses, and chamber of commerce offices across the country, officials and businessmen mobilized to provide jobs...
...Sleeping Car Porters; Roy Wilkins, executive director of the National Associa tion for the Advancement of Colored People; and Martin Luther King, winner of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize and president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Each has explored broad pathways to Negro advancement: Randolph in the labor movement, Wilkins by affirming legal rights, King by awakening the nation's conscience, Young by opening up economic opportunity. None of the advances came easily or swiftly...
...begun meeting with business and labor leaders to seek job openings for Negroes, still its biggest concern. When the U.S. entered World War II, 46 local branches were scattered around the country, and the league, through Industrial Relations Laboratories in 300 defense plants, was able to place more than 150,000 Negroes in jobs never before open to them. "What the Urban League means to the Negro community," said Gunnar Myrdal in An American Dilemma, his classic 1944 study of U.S. race relations, "can best be understood by observing the dire need of its activity in cities where there...