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...settlement that was finally reached in Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz's Washington office in some respects favored the railroad. But neither...
...Public Be Damned." The last thing that Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg did before his appointment to the Supreme Court was to plead in vain with the telegraphers not to strike. Last week his successor. W. Willard Wirtz, who used to ride the North Western home from work every day when he was Adlai Stevenson's law partner, was also getting nowhere. At week's end, as Ben Heineman riffled through mounds of letters from his commuters urging him to hold fast, the telegraphers dug in for a long siege. At that point, the liberal Milwaukee Journal was reminded...
When the President announced his nomination, Wirtz was in Chicago with Goldberg, helping in a last unsuccessful effort to avert a strike against the Chicago & North Western, the U.S.'s third biggest railroad in track mileage. When Goldberg and Wirtz got back to Washington, they hurriedly washed up to get ready for a joint press conference. Goldberg asked Wirtz if he wanted to borrow a clean shirt. "No thanks," cracked Wirtz. "I'd rather try on your shoes...
...Wirtz has a reputation as a wit, and he tried hard to live up to it at the press conference. After Goldberg made a speech saying he was "delighted beyond words" that Wirtz was going to succeed him, Wirtz opened up his own little speech with: "If it was a pun the Secretary was intending, and he was saying he was delighted beyond Wirtz, he was wrong." At one point, Wirtz quoted from Tennyson's Idylls of the King...
...then Wirtz added: "Or, if you will, the Department of Labor...