Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University announced today the appointment of Reinhold Ruedenberg, Consulting Engineer of the General Electric Company, in London, as Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering, and Martin Wagner formerly head of the Building Department of the City of Berlin, and Counsellor for City Planning in Istanbul, Turkey, as assistant professor of Regional Planning...
...effective as any of the white breed. He is Secretary Walter Francis White of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Last January the blacks' Mr. White sat in the Senate visitors' gallery, where Southern members indignantly pointed at him during debate on the Wagner-Van Nuys Anti-Lynching Bill. Lobbyist White claimed to have bagged enough votes to get the bill passed, but a hastily organized Southern filibuster kept it from a vote. Having enjoyed Franklin Roosevelt's benevolent neutrality last time, Lobbyist White hopes for better than that...
Adolf Hitler, supreme showman and orchestrator of his masses, conducted his psychological offensive like a composition by his thunderous favorite, Richard Wagner. It began with a Hitler proclamation, intended to be soothing, in which the Führer expressed to the German people "in my name and in yours how deeply happy we are" that Italy has begun to take measures against the Jews. Soothingly the Proclamation told Germans that they need not be alarmed by the weakness of their stockmarket and other signs of economic strain: "German economy is being so constructed that at any time...
...After being Speaker in the Legislature and State Senator he went to Congress, to the U. S. Senate in 1927. His voting record suggests eccentricity yet shows a pattern: against war, racial injustice, Prohibition, Bonus, tariffs & embargoes, depreciated currency. War debts. He voted against the Wagner Act, the Guffey Coal Act, the Utilities bill, AAA, TVA, NRA, Cotton Control; for SEC, Neutrality, Pump Priming, fathered the Miller-Tydings Act for price control of trademarked goods. In this campaign, his most vulnerable spot is his failure to vote on Social Security...
...convention which meets September 28. This plum was originally contingent on Jimmy Hines's conviction but Republicans, convinced that the trial will not be finished before the convention, were reported willing to take the gamble. Result: Democratic leaders tried to persuade either Governor Herbert Lehman or Senator Robert Wagner to abandon his Senatorial campaign, and stand for Governor against Jimmy Hines's prosecutor...