Word: wirtz
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...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...
...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...
...availability of civilian manpower was the primary consideration in the Committee's recommendations. But in testimony before a House subcommittee last March, Wirtz said that strictly on manpower considerations, there is no need for any educational or occupational deferments. President Johnson said last spring that students studying to be doctor and dentists should be deferred. The Department of Health, Education and Welfare is known to support adding psychologists to Johnson's list...