Word: sargent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...started to paint this week's cover portrait of Sargent Shriver, chief of the anti-poverty campaign, Artist Ben Shahn recollected his own fairly close acquaintance with the condition of the poor. "I grew up with it," he says, "and then had another dose during the Depression...
...Sargent Shriver sees his agency as the leader in the assault on poverty. "The programs of the OEO will cost the taxpayers only 1? out of every tax dollar," he says, "but this 1? provides the cutting edge of all our efforts. Because our 1? is directed at selfhelp, self-motivation, education and local community action, all of our programs are designed ultimately to end poverty...
...Oliver Goldsmith in the 18th century, and little has happened since then to alter that unhappy condition. To most impoverished Americans, the law's personification is a landlord brandishing an eviction notice, a creditor repossessing furniture, a social worker cutting off welfare payments. Nonetheless, argues Anti-Poverty Czar Sargent Shriver, the law can and should be made to protect the poor. To this end, Shriver, a Yale-educated lawyer, has been zealously promoting a pioneering program to expand legal aid to the needy...
...night of Jubilee Weekend in May was billed as a "lay-in in Radcliffe Yard" to freshmen in the Union several weeks ago, but it has been banned from Radcliffe Yard by Miss Susan S. Olson, Radcliffe dean of residence. Earlier, F. Skiddy von Stade, dean of freshmen and Sargent Kennedy Secretary of the Corporation, decided the movie could not be held in Harvard Yard...
...unlikely forum was a two-day annual meeting of the Citizens Crusade Against Poverty at Washington's International Inn. C.C.A.P., which represents 125 social-welfare agencies and other groups, seeks to complement Sargent Shriver's Office of Economic Opportunity with long-range planning and aid local anti-poverty groups with trained personnel and expertise...