Word: willard
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...questions considered first-graduate and occupational deferments-were from all indications decided substantially on the issues. The views of Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz prevailed on both. In testimoney before the Senate Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower, and Poverty last month. Wirtz said that solely on the considerations of civilian manpower supply, neither group of deferments was essential to the nation. Although not a member of the NSC, his views were transmitted to the Council in an official memorandum co-signed by the Secretaries of Commerce and Health, education, and Welfare...
...report was forwarded to IAC chairman Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz, who was thought to have sent it immediately to the White House. But before Christmas, it was learned that the report was still sitting on Wirtz's desk, more than two weeks after completion...
...President must also decide about graduate school deferments. The Interagency Advisory Committee recommended to him a wide list of fields to be deferred. Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz is against such deferments...
...recommendations. The reasons are many. The most important factor is that the Committee based its recommendations on the assumption that the "oldest-first" system would be retained, which it will not. In testimony before the Senate Sub-Committee on Employment, Manpower, and Poverty last March, Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz said that if 19-year-olds and some older men are drafted, there is no justification for educational and occupational deferments strictly from a consideration of civilian manpower supply...
...Committee's chairmen--Secretary of Commerce Alexander B. Trowbridge and Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz--were to have sent the reports to the Council late last week...