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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...
...Machinists Union and United Air Lines reached an agreement yesterday morning which headed off a strike scheduled for last night. Earlier in the day, Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz announced the settlement of a dispute between the AFL-CIO Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and the railroads...
Reuther's attitude results in part from the government's failure to develop any coherent or integrated approach to automation. In fact, most programs have paralleled Secretary of Labor Wirtz's speech to the convention. He said that "capitalism with a conscience and a government that says its business is people can meet the challenge of technology." Rather than outlining any immediate measures, he called for improving education in order to give "young Americans the skills they need in an automated work force...