Word: wirtz
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Harvard gave honorary degrees also to John H. Finley '25, retiring as Master of Eliot House; and two Law School alumni, Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz and Associate Justice William J. Brennan Jr. of the United States Supreme Court...
...Willard Wirtz received his A.B. from Beloit College in 1933 and his Harvard Law degree in 1937. During World War II, he served on the War Labor Board, and was chairman of the Wage Stabilization Board in 1946. In 1961, President Kennedy appointed him Undersecretary of Labor and in 1962, when Secretary Arthur Goldberg resigned, Kennedy promoted Wirtz to the Cabinet...
...Wirtz's citation read "A devoted public servant; in moderating conflicts of power he steadfastly affirms reason and right...
...story on the Riot Commission Report I was quoted as saying that "the Administration consists of nothing but a bunch of patio liberals." I call your attention to the fact that his phrase was used not by me but by Secretary Wirtz, who doubtless had in mind Ivy League university professors much more than the hard-nosed liberals of the Administration who have lately been so busy putting out fires in Washington. Daniel Patrick Moynihan Director, Joint Center for Urban Studies
STUDENT deferments themselves are of dubious validity. Secretary of Labor Wirtz has testified that they are unnecessary for maintaining an adequate supply of skilled manpower. They should be abolished entirely--but only as part of comprehensive draft reform, such as the Marshall Commission recommendations or Senator Edward M. Kennedy's reform bill now pending in the Senate...