Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over: 1) Neutrality legislation, which had seemed moribund until Secretary Hull pleaded last week for amendments to allow sale of arms to (good) nations at war, 2) a tax bill, 3) Social Security. Mr. Roosevelt could feel relieved that Congressional items like further WPA investigation and revision of the Wagner Act seemed likely to die of overweight...
...sitdown, which the U. S. Supreme Court has declared illegal. If suits like Tom Girdler's can extend the anti-trust laws to cover other strikes (which are legal in principle) Labor will have suffered a blow, all but undoing such pro-Labor legislation as the Wagner Act. Last week in appealing the Apex verdict, a union attorney announced that the U. S. Department of Justice has agreed to intervene on Labor's side. And John Lewis last fortnight set up a committee to work for specific exemption of unions from anti-trust litigation...
...Worried musical observers report that Adolf Hitler is forsaking Wagner for such tuneful fluffiness as Franz Lehar's The Merry Widow...
...February, Senator Robert F. Wagner of New York introduced a national health bill embodying A.M.A.'s recommendations. Although the bill made no mention of compulsory health insurance, it contained a provision for Federal grants to individual States for any schemes of medical care they might wish to set up. That way, of course, is a likely back alley to socialized medicine...
Last week, the A.M.A. met for its goth annual convention in St. Louis and balked. The convention adopted a resolution declaring that it was "unmistakably and emphatically opposed" to all provisions of the Wagner Bill. The Bureau of Legal Medicine denounced it for unnecessarily expanding the work of the U. S. Public Health Service and Social Security Board, for "extreme vagueness [in spending] vast sums of money" and the "great powers conferred on certain Federal officers in the control of the spending," and a special committee of the House of Delegates met in camera for three days, emerged with...