Word: shrivers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since its inception in August 1964, the many-faceted, $2.5 billion anti-poverty program directed by Sargent Shriver's Office of Economic Opportunity has experienced a predictable pattern of controversy, red tape and scandal...
...Director Sargent Shriver charged last week that while 523 towns and counties have organized effective anti-poverty programs, Los Angeles is the only major city in the U.S. that has not done so. Federal officials also claimed that Yorty was one of only two big-city mayors (the other: Chicago's Richard Daley) who spurned a secret offer of special federal aid earlier this year to help forestall summer riots−even though 34% of L.A.'s Negro youths were unemployed.. In Harlem, by contrast, the Federal Government's $4,000,000 program to make jobs...
...responsibility for stirring the emotions of Los Angeles Negroes to fever pitch. In a telegram that he fired off to Washington last week, Yorty declared that "one of the riot-inciting factors was the deliberate and well-publicized cutting off of poverty funds to this city," demanded that Shriver "process our programs and release our funds while we reorganize." The mayor also accused California Governor Edmund G. Brown of trying to make political hay by appointing a commission to look into the riots' causes...
...House, the bill 1) authorized an expenditure of $1.9 billion, $400 million more than the Administration requested, and 2) stipulated that any decision by a Governor to veto community action, neighborhood youth corps or adult-education programs in his state would be subject to review by Sargent Shriver, director of the Office of Economic Opportunity. The bill was fine by Senate Democrats, but the Republicans had different ideas...
...laws have been chiefly the affirmation of the Negro's constitutional rights; only now is the U.S. moving into providing greater opportunities. Sargent Shriver's poverty warriors, for example, work for the Office of Economic Opportunity; one of the newest bureaus in Washington is the Equal Economic Opportunity Commission. The thrust of Shriver's program is toward creating employment and employable people, and its experiments may give guidance in determining what U.S. society and Government will do next for the Negro. For ultimately, opportunity is a good job−a job that lets a bent-down...