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...McNamara (Business School '39), Postmaster General J. Edward Day (Law '38) and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy ('48). Others include former Harvard Law School Dean James M. Landis, reformer of regulatory agencies, Assistant Defense Secretary Paul Nitze ('28), Federal Housing Authority Director Robert C. Weaver ('29) and Disarmament Adviser John Jay McCloy...
...rent. And, of course, the whole slum creation process often starts when a respectable Negro family moves into a white neighborhood: the whites move out and landlords divide the houses into smaller, more crowded units and reap the profits of a slum. If, as Housing Commissioner-designate Robert Weaver says, integration in housing is the key to integration else-where, conversely the elimination of racial prejudice generally would be an important step in solving the critical slum problem...
...appointment of Weaver was an excellent first step for the new Administration to take. It is heartening to see Negro officials appointed not for the sake of patronage or filling quotas, but to get things done...
...Kennedy Administration must recognize that the positive way to deal with the pressures in Southern society for segregation is to develop pressures in the other direction. Housing Commissioner Weaver's plan for urban renewal, partially geared toward the development of integrated communities, presents an excellent method of providing forces to counter, in a positive way, the social forces driving Southerners toward discrimination...
Robert C. Weaver, 53, administrator of the U.S. Housing and Home Finance Agency. At the age of 32, Harvard-educated Sociologist Weaver was a top strategist in the so-called Black Cabinet of the Roosevelt era-the able squad of Negro intellectuals who held administrative jobs in the New Deal. Since F.D.R.'s day, Weaver has been a teacher and writer (The Negro Ghetto, Negro Labor: a National Problem}, a highly regarded housing expert, and a spokesman on civil rights problems (he is board chairman of the N.A.A.C.P.). Kennedy plucked him from his $22,500-a-year...