Word: sargent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hoax." The publicity was what nettled Sargent Shriver's Office of Economic Opportunity, target of the protest for not having acted on the campers' requests for $1,356,000 in housing and training grants. Said OEO Spokesman James Kelleher: "They can sit in the park until Christmas, but we're not going to provide funds for something that's a hoax...
Yarmolinsky left the Defense Department in 1964 to aid Sargent Shriver during the planning of the War on Poverty Program. He was scheduled to continue as Shriver's assistant when the poverty program received Congressional approval. At that time his appointment was dropped from the legislation in the face of strong Southern opposition...
Next to the shooting war in Viet Nam, the spending war against home-front poverty is perhaps the most applauded, criticized and calumniated issue in the U.S. By way of defending his generalship in the Great Society, Sargent Shriver, director of the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), marched last week on the House poverty subcommittee. He had expected a firing squad but got a bombardment of bouquets instead. The bullets came later...
Members of the Committee last night disputed the displacement figures that Francis W. Sargent, Commissioner of the DPW, cited when he announced the Brookline-Elm route...
...that time, Sargent said that the proposed Portland-Albany route would displace three times as many jobs as the Brookline...