Word: labor
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...Russia, Goldberg grew up in poverty: his father used a wagon drawn by a blind horse to cart produce. Arthur went to Northwestern University Law School, where in 1930 he got a doctorate in jurisprudence and ranked No. 1 in his class. He got into the rugged world of labor law, in 1948 became general counsel for the C.I.O. and the United Steelworkers, helped plan the A.F.L.-C.I.O. merger. On Capitol Hill he met John Kennedy; they became good friends. Later Goldberg became one of Kennedy's most trusted associates...
Positive Thinking. Harlem's Adam Clayton Powell, chairman of the Education and Labor Committee that had expanded and reported the bill, spoke from personal experience when he observed that "social-welfare power struggles, political friction and public controversy have been spawned." But, Powell claimed extravagantly, the program already had "uplifted and given new hope" to 3,000,000 people who had been "drifting aimlessly through shabby lives." John Lindsay, the Republican mayoral candidate in New York, also acknowledged problems. Then he said: "I think we should look at this rather affirmatively-we should look at the good that these...
...party's own worst liability. In Commons, he had proved no match for the acid jousts with Prime Minister Harold Wilson. On TV, he came across to the nation as a frail, pale shadow of the graceful, witty private Sir Alec. The latest National Opinion Poll had Labor back in front of the Tories 46% to 41%. On a man-to-man popularity basis, polls invariably showed Home trailing Wilson. One gave Wilson the nod in virtually every category, from "tough" (Wilson 62%, Home 29%), to "straightforward and plain speaking" (Wilson 75% , Home...
...moved from the foreign secretaryship to No. 10 Downing Street. He inherited a party embarrassed by the Profumo-Keeler scandal and racked by dissension over his own selection. After nearly 13 years in power, the Tories were visibly tired and the public seemed overwhelmingly ready for a switch to Labor. Sir Alec managed to rally his party, and in the end it very nearly defeated Labor last September. Once expecting a landslide, a shaken Harold Wilson had to settle, when the votes were tallied, for a slender four-vote majority...
...moldings (TIME, Nov. 6). In the mural he painted the face of his old friend Malraux-the gesture of a Renaissance artist paying homage to his patron. But as a grateful adopted son of France, Chagall made a truly princely gesture: he presented the ceiling, a year's labor, to France as a gift. Without fanfare, Chagall often turns up at opera performances, whips out a spyglass to study his masterpiece furtively...