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University of Chicago Law School Graduate Abraham Ribicoff (cum laude, 1933) glanced through the program of the American Council of Education's annual meeting just before taking the rostrum for his address as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. The purpose of the Washington session, said the brochure, was to stimulate cooperation in education-and Ribicoff laughed sourly. Tossing aside his canned speech, he began scolding the presidents and deans of some 1,000 colleges. "I don't think you really care about education or are going to do anything about it. I don't know that...
...Refugee Emergency Center. A few with jobs have started returning their checks with touching letters of thanks, but so many newcomers need help that the $5,000,000 federal fund is disappearing rapidly. Last week Florida Governor Farris Bryant flew to Washington, asked Health. Education and Welfare Secretary Abraham Ribicoff for $8,000,000 to help make up for the $9,909,000 his state has spent to school 10,000 Cuban children. ''This situation is visited upon Florida because of its geographical location, and is burdening Florida with a national problem.'' said Bryant. Ribicoff issued...
...cuff opinion, Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Abraham Ribicoff announced that at least work-relief programs were within the law, made no judgment on Newburgh's other code provisions...
While plumping before a House committee for a $10 million bill to battle juvenile delinquency, Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Abraham Ribicoff delivered an obiter dictum on child labor legislation. A New Britain, Conn. newsboy at eight and a milkman's helper at twelve, the Polish immigrant's son suspected that present statutes would have slowed his own running start, faulted "laws that do too much coddling of children." Said he: "I think it's better for a boy to take a job as delivery boy for a drugstore than to be hanging around a drugstore corner...
This campaign has A.M.A.'s opponents fuming. Says Ribicoff: "The A.M.A. is riding for a fall. Any organized pressure group that tries to frustrate a basic need of the people will find that no matter how powerful it is, it comes out on the losing end." Less to be expected, a sizable fraction of doctors have found A.M.A.'s hard sell a bit overdone...