Word: wirtz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...making meaningless and sometimes embarrassing noises in public. Last week Secretary of Commerce John T. Connor predicted an expanding economy, but the only cliché he dared use to buttress his faith was that the Government would continue "a sound mix of fiscal and monetary policies." Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz, attacking reports of a "credibility gap" in the Administration, questioned the credibility of the press in reporting budgetary news-of which there has been precious little...
Only personal intervention by President Johnson on Oct. 2 had persuaded the unions to postpone the strike for two weeks. At that time, the President named a mediation panel whose members included Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz and Commerce Secretary John Connor. Summoning the labor-management negotiators to Washington, McNamara and the Joint Chiefs of Staff lectured them about G.E.'s "vital importance to national defense." Mc Namara noted that the U.S. depends on General Electric to supply, among many things, the engines for the nation's best fighter plane, the F-4 Phantom...
...sign currently in the window of the shop expalins that "in recent extended negotiations with Gardner Ackley, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, and Willard Wirtz, secretary of Labor, were we persuaded not to aggravate the current inflationary trends in the national economy? Yes! Haircut prices shall remain the same...
...camp. Some authorities-inside the White House as well as out-got to talking one recent evening about bedrock allegiances in the Cabinet. Their remarkable conclusion was that in the showdown Bobby would ultimately command the loyalties of Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz, Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, Interior Secretary Stewart L. Udall, United Nations Ambassador Arthur Goldberg and even Housing and Urban Development Secretary Robert Weaver, despite the harsh treatment that Kennedy subjected him to during the recent hearings on cities. Behind Johnson, the experts speculated, would be Secretary of State Dean Rusk...
...altar at such a great rate that L.B.J. threw a White House dinner for the whole brood: Veep Hubert Humphrey's son Robert, 22, and Fiancee Donna Erickson, 21; Defense Secretary Robert Mc-Namara's daughter Margaret, 24, and Fiance Barry Carter, 24; and Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz's son Richard, 27, and Fiancee Margaret Ann Hickman. Before the week was out, Bob Humphrey, a senior at Minnesota's Mankato State College, and Donna, a former Miss Hastings, Minn., proceeded to the next step. Amid pealing bells and the fond smiles of 675 guests, the couple...