Word: wirtz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Impetus. Labor Secretary Wirtz insists that hiring new employees instead of working old ones overtime would have increased employment by more than 900,000 last year, but industry hotly disputes this. In the steel industry, most overtime is worked when employees fail to show up for shifts, and no new hiring would be feasible in such cases. The auto industry has dragged in every available trained worker to keep up with the sales race, and Detroit companies have even gone to South Bend to recruit laid-off Studebaker workers. But there is no time to train green hands; automen need...
...front-page story in a recent Sunday Times (City Edition, not the Late City) told of President Johnson's plan to allow draftees failing the Army entrance exams to enroll in a voluntary program of rehabilitation. Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz stated, "This will be the greatest human salvage program in the history of country." The national report on disqualified draftees noted that fully one-third of the young men examined for the army are let go, "about half," the Times said, "being rejected for medical reasons and the remainder funking mental tests...
Gellhorn also expressed concern about the profession's failure to encourage promising young Negroes to study law. "Many law schools are eagerly prepared to welcome Negro entrants, but applicants for admission are rare." Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz weighed in with the suggestion that one big reason for the shortage of Negro law students is the shortage of opportunities for them in the large law firms after graduation. The legal profession, said Wirtz, is "the worst segregated group in our society...
President Johnson directed Saturday that, starting July 1, most youths be given mental and physical tests once they reached 18. Secretary of labor Willard Wirtz said later in the day, however, that married men and those in school would probably be given deferrals...
...long program in which the late President and former Presidents Eisenhower and Truman separately discussed the highest office in the land. This week on CBS, four members of Kennedy's Cabinet-Secretary of State Rusk, Secretary of Defense MacNamara, Secretary of the Treasury Dillon and Secretary of Labor Wirtz-will measure Kennedy's legacy to his country in terms of the past and the future...