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Died. Robert Ferdinand Wagner, 75, author of the New Deal's Wagner act, lifelong Democratic champion of labor; in New York City. A German immigrant boy, he struggled up from the slums of Manhattan's Yorkville (his father was a tenement janitor) to work his way through City...
Nkrumah caught on fast, and was soon hedging and weaving like an old Tammany pro. C.P.P. had promised to revoke a government order which compelled cocoa growers to destroy diseased plants; in power, Nkrumah found that to do so would ruin the industry. He simply swallowed his words and let...
For 14 years, beginning in 1881, he lived in New York, and made his living as a writer. He became U.S. correspondent for South American newspapers (notably Buenos Aires' La Nation), wrote essays on the Brooklyn Bridge and woman's suffrage, did art criticism in English for the...
"What, What?" Old Jim Hagerty's political sources are such that he can pick up the phone and call almost any politician in the country and get an answer. But even at 76 he is no telephone reporter; he likes to look his sources in the eye, still makes...
Political Career: In 1931 ran for the state assembly from Manhattan's Tenth Assembly District on a strong anti-Tammany platform. Defeated. His campaign manager: an ambitious young Republican lawyer, Tom Dewey. Next year Brownell won the election, was re-elected four times; quit the assembly in 1937 to...