Word: romneys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also enabled unions to load the nation's largest industry with archaic and inefficient methods of operation. As a result, construction costs are climbing so swiftly that they are complicating Washington's struggles to increase the supply of housing and restrain inflation. Last week George Romney, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, challenged construction-union leaders to adopt reforms. His candor was greeted with boos, jeers and catcalls...
...want to help you see yourselves as others see you," Romney told 3,000 delegates at a Washington conference of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Building Trades Department. Then he reeled off the statistics of construction wage settlements which jumped from an average raise of 12.40 per hour in 1962 to 49.60 per hour last year. The unionists cheered wildly. Next the Secretary admonished them to relax apprenticeship restrictions that deny jobs to Negroes. They booed. When he urged building workers to increase their productivity, they booed again. He advised the unionists to end other practices that raise building costs. More boos...
Reddening but unruffled, Romney continued: "There is nothing more vulnerable than entrenched success. The demand for reform is growing. People are already talking about compulsory arbitration in the building trades...
...care what color it is: tissue-thin voile shirts are turning up like daffodils all over the city. In Washington, D.C., a lady reporter turned heads at the White House correspondents' dinner with a bare-midriff, see-through pajama set. Being diplomatic (or missing the point), George Romney asked: "Who is the blonde with all the hair?" In San Francisco, where openwork-crochet tunics are favorite items, one girl showed up at the Bachelor's Ball with a midriff bare but for a large aquamarine. A customer at Dallas' Orchid Shop last week paid for her lace...
...company, into shipbuilding, paint making and chemicals as an early conglomerate. His unsuccessful attempt in 1955 to win control of Montgomery Ward won him a reputation as a controversial corporate raider. Later he managed to become the largest stockholder in American Motors Corp., which was then headed by George Romney, now Secretary of Housing and Urban Development...