Word: wirtz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...high school senior in doubt about whether to seek a higher education, says Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz, faces an unflattering proposition: "The machine now has a high school education in the sense that it can do most jobs that a high school graduate can do, so machines will get the jobs because they work for less than a living wage. A person needs 14 years of education to compete with machines...
...break the impasse, the President named Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz, Commerce Secretary John T. Connor and Oregon Senator Wayne Morse as members of a panel to recommend settlement terms within 42 hours. With that, things began to happen. The National Labor Relations Board, which normally takes weeks to ponder such moves, got federal courts in New York and Baltimore to order the strikers back to work. The union at first ignored the injunctions, but at week's end "Teddy" Gleason, perhaps noting the congressional clamor for a law to forbid another such walkout, ordered his men back to their...
...hazard in teaching new math is that its basic concepts-sets, number systems not based on ten, lattices-require profound comprehension by teachers, which usually entails plenty of upgrading study. Professor Robert Wirtz, an associate of Beberman's at the University of Illinois, visited more than 100 elementary schools all over the U.S. and reported: "The teachers I found are frightened. They don't understand the new math or why they are supposed to teach...
After watching Henning operate for many months, Wirtz decided he wanted a man of his own choosing, someone more compatible. But George Meany considered John Henning a perfect union representative in Government. As soon as he heard of Wirtz's plan to oust Henning, foxy old George arranged dozens of phone calls to top U.S. unionists to tell them of Henning's plight. He also saw to it that the story was leaked to the press. Suddenly, thousands of union men's protest telegrams began to bombard the White House-some even came from ships...
That kind of pressure from the labor movement, which had delivered several million loyal votes for Lyndon Johnson, had a salutary effect. Arthur Goldberg himself entered the controversy, set up a meeting of Wirtz, Meany and himself. There, Justice Goldberg judiciously suggested that Wirtz rescind his demand that Henning leave. That may change in the future, but for the moment George Meany had chalked up a singular and unusual victory-an outside veto over who goes and who stays in a Government department...