Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...resolution sponsored by New York's Senator Wagner and Massachusetts' Representative Rogers would lift U. S. immigration quotas to let 20,000 child refugees from Germany (one-sixth of the estimated number who are in "desperate straits") enter the U. S. this year and next. At hearings on the bill last week, Clarence E. Pickett of the American Friends Service Committee (Mrs. Roosevelt's favorite charity) drew the pitiable picture of Jewish children in Germany barred from schools and from playing in parks, spat upon in the streets, seldom able to see their hunted fathers...
...foreign excitement to bring out a twelve-point program for Business Recovery. Amounting to a platform nucleus for 1940, Joe Martin's planks included: "Keep the U. S. out of war"; curb spending; revise deterrent taxes; curtail the President's monetary powers (see p. 77); amend the Wagner Act; rehabilitate the railroads. A major effort by Joe Martin's House Republicans last week to discontinue the President's power to decrease further the dollar's gold content was defeated 225 to 158. >Received last week by many a Republican politico was a "teaser" postcard setting...
...Heard (in committee) New York's Senator Wagner defend his Labor Relations Act against revisionist criticism (TIME, April 10). Author Wagner would concede only that employers as well as employers should be allowed to petition for elections when competing unions impede work by fighting...
Because of Rowe's indifference last year and earlier this season, many felt that Colton Wagner might step into Chace's stretcher after a single year of experience with the Yardlings. Weighing 185 and standing six feet four, the veteran Rowe is the logical choice. His ability to whip the blade through fast and maintain his proportion will make the Varsity tough to beat on racing starts and final Sprints...
...third crew boating is: Comstock, stroke; Reece, seven; Burr, six; Whitman, five; Wagner, four; Hallowell, three; Goodwin, two; Dillingham, bow; and Kiney as the coxswain...