Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moynihan worked in the Kennedy campaign of 1960, and J.F.K. rewarded him by making him, at 34, the youngest sub-Cabinet member in Washington. He stayed through two Secretaries of Labor and even into the Johnson Administration. Shortly after the President's Howard University speech, Moynihan went back to New York to run for the city council presidency. Bobby Kennedy had some part in persuading him to make the run, though the two have never been close friends; Moynihan feels he should be as critical of Kennedy as he can be within the framework of their similar ideo logical...
...Administration bill still languishing in conference committee. The next day, both houses complied. When Johnson signed the bill into law, photographers were conspicuously absent. Only once before-in 1917-had Congress ordered striking workers back on the job, and the President was not anxious to remind his labor supporters of his role...
...A.F.L.-C.l.O. President George Meany. It came as a still greater surprise when Johnson named as chairman Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse. For one thing, he is one of L. B. J.'s peskiest Viet Nam war critics. Moreover, although Morse is an old hand at labor mediation, he won the implacable enmity of the Machinists' Siemiller as the Johnson-appointed mediator in the airline strike...
...labor, the formula for an imposed settlement sounded suspiciously like compulsory arbitration, though the Administration called it "mediation to finality." Whatever its name, the plan was another in a line of stopgap solutions. As such, it pointed up the need for Johnson to make good on his 18-month-old promise to propose permanent legislation against crippling strikes. For, notwithstanding congressional-and presidential-squeamishness on the subject, the fact is that in some strikes, as the President himself said last week, "the public interest must take precedence over private interests...
...talent. His collection of Chicago Poems appeared in 1916, followed by Cornhuskers, Smoke and Steel and six other volumes. His talents were diverse, and almost inexhaustible. In 1927 he completed a labor of love, his American Songbag, a treasury of the nation's folk songs. His first novel, Remembrance Rock, was finished in 1948. At 74, he published Always the Young Strangers, a memoir of his boyhood. Always, however, his first love was verse and song. As a preface to 1928's Good Morning, America, Sandburg listed 38 tentative definitions of poetry. Among them: "Poetry is a sliver...