Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large and small, proved nothing if not that most of the voters who had gone to the polls had been more concerned with local issues than with national party lines. The President's vote-299th in his District-helped re-elect his friend Elmer Van Wagner by 275 votes...
Chief Justice Hughes and Associate Justice Owen Roberts, whose historic change of heart as exhibited by his decision on the Wagner Labor Act last spring stamped him as at least temporarily a liberal, belong to neither of the Court's well defined sides. Both are closer to the liberals than to their hard-shelled conservative colleagues with whom they were aligned in this week's employe bonus case. Among the Court's current liberal majority, the shadings of viewpoint are subtler. A single opinion, even when it is as eloquent as the one he read this week...
...second appearance last week, it not only held the balance of power in New York's municipal election but helped elect Democrat Thomas F. Holling as mayor of Buffalo, cut a wider swath by supporting 13 successful candidates for the State Assembly (including sober young Robert F. Wagner Jr.), besides a good share of delegates to New York's forthcoming constitutional convention...
...consider its "Old Hickory'' product a table salt. Primarily for curing farm-killed pork, "Old Hickory'' has recently been discovered to possess a pleasing "hammy" flavor, especially good in soups; is sold only by a few swank grocers, such as Philadelphia's John Wagner & Sons, in 4-oz. bottles...
...forget to look farther than December's headlines. Don't forget the Minimum Wage Case, the Wagner Labor Relations Act case, the effect of these decisions on the history-making Supreme Court Bill, on the history-making rise of Organized Labor...