Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Third-Term resolution˜such as has become routine at conventions of C. I. O. affiliates˜Chairman Lewis squelched him. Thus Mr. Lewis had left wide open the question of C. I. O. al legiance in 1940. The convention then went on record against all amendments to the Wagner Act, and against diversion of Federal funds from social services to Rearmament (but did not oppose Rearmament as such). It demanded more Relief, more Housing, more and better Planning in the name of greater production, greater employment, greater consumer purchasing power...
Tristan und Isolde (Fri. 11:45 p. m. NBC-Blue). Act III of Richard Wagner's opera of love and death from the Chicago City Opera with Tenor Paul Althouse, Soprano Kirsten Flagstad in the title roles...
With few notable exceptions (Senators Wagner in New York, Downey in California, Bone in Washington), arch-New Deal Democrats were defeated. Democrats such as Governor Lehman of New York and Senator Clark of Missouri, both of whom differed with the President on the Supreme Court, as well as those like Senator Tydings of Maryland whom the President tried to purge, were conspicuous among the survivors-a triumph for the old-fashioned politics of Postmaster Farley over the politics of the White House Janizariat...
...cathedral on "The God-Given Rights of Personality," to the accompaniment of rude whistles (which he ignored) from Nazis in his congregation. Last week, at the height of Germany's pogroms, Cardinal Faulhaber asked for police protection for the Catholic clergy. Instead he received, from District Leader Adolf Wagner, a snarl: "If Faulhaber mends his ways, he will be protected better than the police can protect him." Thereupon a Nazi mob ganged up to the Cardinal's palace, smashed all the windows within stone's throw...
...specific candidates performed in the same speech: "I am proud . . . that I have never called out the armed forces of the State or nation except on errands of mercy. That type of Democratic wisdom was illustrated last year by ... Governor Murphy of Michigan"; a good word for Democratic Senator Wagner of New York: "In 1918, when I was 36 years old, I was invited to run for the Governorship of this State. ... I declined the offer. ... I did not think that I had experience and knowledge of public affairs wide enough. . . . Besides, I did not think it quite right...