Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recognized to call up the District of Columbia Airport Bill. The Helium Bill was passed as Senator King sat near Leader Barkley. He rustled his papers and prepared to get up with the Airport Bill but was slow on his feet. New York's Senator Robert Wagner rose and said: "Mr. President, I move that the Senate proceed to the consideration of Calendar No. 814, the bill ... to assure persons within the jurisdiction of every State equal protection of the laws and to punish the crime of lynching...
Fortnight ago, Bob Wagner's veteran slum-clearing measure came to bat for the third time. Backed by such assorted powers as President Roosevelt, the conservative New York Times and the tory New York Herald Tribune, the bill looked like a sure thing. Sponsor Wagner crowed: "There is practical unanimity throughout the country in favor of the measure. . . . There was practically no opposition to the bill in the hearings before the committee...
From the start Bob Wagner was worried about only one thing: how much damage would the Senate do to his bill before finally passing it? He had been on his feet less than an hour when sniping began. George of Georgia wanted to know what was in it for the farmers. Bob Wagner, instead of appealing to rural magnanimity, claimed that his bill benefited everybody. This palpable dodge angered the Southerner into damning the bill as "a fraud because it cannot be administered in rural areas." Snapped Senator Wagner: "I'll compare my character with that of the Senator...
Words spoken by Franklin D. Roosevelt last January ironically contributed to Bob Wagner's last ignominy. Hadn't the President plugged for consolidation of independent agencies as part of his Reorganization Plan? Yes, thought the Senate, and placed Bob Wagner's potent, three-man U. S. Housing Authority not in a separate agency but under the thumb of Secretary of the Interior Ickes. Thus altered, Bob Wagner's Housing Bill, which now looked as though it would never provide houses for any New Yorkers, was tossed into the lap of the House...
...Mahoney is far better equipped." That new Candidate Jeremiah Titus Mahoney was better equipped, many a politician was inclined to agree. Onetime athlete (in 1897 he won New York City's all-round athletic championship), onetime law partner of New York's politically powerful Senator Robert F. Wagner (still his close friend), onetime State Supreme Court Justice (he resigned in 1928 to return to private practice), honest Jeremiah Mahoney, now 62, big-framed and firm-jawed, has made few enemies among New York politicians, has the confusing advantage of being himself a potent member of Tammany Hall...