Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bold beginning" was President Johnson's speech at Howard University on June 4, 1965. Johnson focused on the problem of Negro family disintegration; Moynihan calls the speech unprecedented for an American President. That speech was the result of Moynihan's report for the Labor Department, The Negro Family: The Case for National Action...
...segregation and discrimination, and could not organize itself to produce one within the life of the 89th Congress. And in any event it did not do so because it allowed the question of developing a program to be superseded by a preposterous and fruitless controversy over a Department of Labor report which had been the original precipitant of the Howard speech...
...report was entitled The Negro Family: The Case for National Action. It was written by me (I was then Assistant Secretary of Labor for Policy Planning and Research), with the assistance of Paul Barton and Ellen Broderick of the Policy Planning Staff. It was an internal document entirely: intended for the Secretary of Labor, the President, and the members of their staffs who would accept or reject its proposals and implications. A hundred copies were produced, but with on expectation of using even that few. The objectives of the report were twofold. First: to argue the need for seizing...
...sooner had President Johnson proposed that the Commerce and Labor departments be merged than Connor said he thought this was a fine idea. Thereupon he announced that he would shortly be leaving Government to return to the business world. Last week, after sorting many offers, he found a likely berth. Allied Chemical Corp., a $1.2 billion company that ranks fifth in the chemical industry, named Connor, 52, as its next president. The retiring Secretary will not become chief executive of Allied; that post is still to be held by Chester M. Brown, 59, who has been acting as both chairman...
...wildest places," says Inter-Continental Chairman John Gates, "because we concentrate on areas where tourism needs to be developed. In the back of the house, we crank in all the American know-how and labor-saving efficiency, while in front we try to achieve the personalized standards of European service...