Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most difficult problem in producing the Democratic Platform of 1936 was to make that document appear to be the legitimate offspring of the Democratic National Convention. When Franklin Roosevelt's chosen platform-maker, Senator Robert Wagner of New York, arrived last week in Philadelphia, he solemnly assured inquirers that he did not bring with him a platform ready-made at the White House. Some days earlier Democratic Senators had been shown the draft of the platform, but Senator Wagner had either left it behind in Washington or tactfully destroyed it. All that he brought to Philadelphia, hidden under...
...many another. When the perfunctory examination of unordered lumber was over, the drafting committee settled down in room No. 717 at the Bellevue-Stratford to an all-night job. Their job was to make their work last all night. Waiters came & went with trays, bottles, ice. By morning Senator Wagner's job was nearly done, the platform was hastily sent to Washington by plane to be examined at the White House. By evening it was back, amended. The platform committee approved it, a stenographer retyped it, the Convention adopted it with a conglomerate shout. If politics were...
...Jersey's Governor Harold Giles Hoffman was threatened with impeachment because he (1 denounced the Constitution of the U. S., 2 supported the Wagner Labor Act, 3 insulted a U. S. district judge, misused WPA funds, S made extraordinary attempts to save the life of Bruno Hauptmann...
...Chairman of the Senate Munitions Committee and leader in the fight for neutrality legislation was (1 Carter Glass, 2 Hiram Johnson, 3 Gerald P. Nye, 4 Maury Maverick, 5 Robert F. Wagner...
...eight Supreme Court decisions touching the New Deal program, the only two favorable to the Administration were on the (1 Guffey Coal Control Act and the Bankhead Act, 2 Wagner Labor Relations Act and the TVA, 3 AAA and NRA, 4 Gold Clause and the TVA, 5 Public Utility Act and the Housing...