Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last session, Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley was filling the calendar for the session to follow when his distracted lieutenant, Utah's William H. King, hesitated too long getting to his feet with a District of Columbia airport bill. Up jumped New York's Robert Wagner with his Federal Anti-Lynching Bill which had already passed the House. So fearful of a last-minute filibuster by Southern Senators was Leader Barkley that he promised to make anti-lynching the first order of business after the Farm Bill in the next session, if Senator Wagner would withdraw...
...sharpest parliamentarians, protested that this would violate their agreement. At this juncture Vice President Garner, who like his chief had an aching tooth and wanted no part of the headache that was to follow, surrendered his gavel to Senator Clark. No sooner had Anti-Lyncher Clark recognized Anti-Lyncher Wagner to introduce debate on his bill than Texas' old Tom Connally got the floor to touch off the filibuster that the Senate had managed to postpone last summer...
...future." New York's lumbering senior Senator Royal Copeland then rose to explain unnecessarily, as he was to do many times as the day progressed, that Tom Connally's scorn was directed not at him but at his colleague in name only, junior Senator Wagner...
...unfavorable House Rules Committee. Neither the farm bill nor the bill to create seven regional TVAs was clearly formulated. Executive reorganization looked like the first item on the calendar but on it also was something definitely not included on the President's list. This was the Wagner-Van Nuys Anti-Lynching Bill which Senate Democratic Leader Alben Barkley had agreed to consider early in the current session to avoid a possible filibuster in the closing days of the last one. With antilynching, and the possibility of a major Congressional uproar on the subject of taxation added to the President...
...affiliate -struck against the retailers for union recognition and a closed shop. Retailers promptly had peddler pickets clapped in jail. Chicago's Judge Michael Feinberg refused an injunction to restrain the police, told the junkmen they were not employes but independent merchants and not covered by the Wagner Act. So last week junkmen began organizing a co-operative junk yard to ignore both wholesalers and retailers and sell direct to the mills. Hurt, the wholesaling members of Chicago's local Metal Institute retired to St. Joseph, Mich., to hear Milton Silverstein keynote their convention on "Playing the Game...