Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would make a further compromise, they would vote to send it back to the committee. The Vice President told them what he meant to do. That evening, he took Senators Harrison, Barkley and Pittman and went back to talk to "The Boss." He even got in touch with Senator Wagner, about to write a stinging reply to Governor Lehman who had urged him to vote against the Court Bill (TIME, July 26). The Vice President advised the Senator not to make himself ridiculous: by the time his answer was published there would be no Court Bill before the Senate...
...Strip-tease!" exploded Clover Fork's Secretary-Treasurer A. F. Whitfield. "We deny that. The company has been observing the Wagner Labor Relations Act to the letter...
Bedside Manner-The man on whom Tammany last week bestowed its standard was a U. S. Senator. Certain was Tammany that it needed a potent vote-getter to win and who could be better than one of its own sons, Bob Wagner, son of a German janitor, brought up in Yorkville (Manhattan's East Side German district), beloved of Labor because lie is credited with authorship of the Wagner Labor Relations Act. But Senator Wagner, although he called politely at Tammany Hall, declined the honor. So Tammany finally staked its bets on a onetime Republican mayor of Ann Arbor...
FREUD, GOETHE, WAGNER - Thomas Mann-Knopf ($2). Expanded versions of three lectures delivered by the author on his recent whirlwind anti-Nazi crusade in New York (TIME...
...chairman of the National Labor Relations Board in 1934, later a member of the short-lived Federal Mediation Board for the steel strike. His decision in the Houde case (TIME, Sept. 10, 1934), ruling that representatives of the majority could bargain for all employes, has since become the Wagner Act's chief Labor weapon. Wisconsin's new law, suggested by Dean Garrison, may well become equally significant in the philosophy of individual indebtedness...