Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...already submerged the President's program and is determined to "do something for private business." The Senate has not even made a pretense of discussing any of the measures proposed by the White House, but has snarled itself into a minor filibuster on the antilynching bill of Senator Wagner...
However, there are many passages that indicate that the leopard has not entirely changed his spots. The President, in discussing the proposed agricultural act, declared that "here again majority rule seems justified." This apparently means that, as in the Wagner Labor Act, the President favors a plan by which a majority may bind the rest of the farmers to a definite program...
...policy was emphasized by A. L. P. bigwigs convening at the Claridge to lay plans for the future. This year A. L. P.'s new assemblymen will be expected to plump for a fairly well defined platform including: 1) ratification of the child labor amendment, 2) a "little" Wagner-Steagall housing bill for New York, 3) reducing the old age pension limit to 60, 4) municipal power plants as a yardstick for rates, 5) regulation of private detective agencies...
...murderess was imposed last week on a plump and pretty 31-year-old Bavarian blonde named Mrs. Anna Marie Filser Hahn. Crime of which a Cincinnati jury of 11 women and one man found Mrs. Hahn guilty was poisoning a 78-year-old German-American named Jacob Wagner with arsenic and croton...
...late evening snack of beer, pancakes, spinach, arsenic and croton oil, prepared by Mrs. Hahn, was partial paralysis and indigestion. Still hale enough to be wheeled into court, George Heis quavered out the most damaging testimony at her trial - for which the prosecution had picked the case of Jacob Wagner apparently at random...