Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From President Truman to the Republican-controlled Congress, backtracking, sidetracking, and just plain indifference to the number one domestic problem of housing has been the order of the last few months. But with the reintroduction of the Wagner-Ellender-Taft public housing bill, Congress has another opportunity to alleviate this universally deplored condition in the nation...
...later, Housing Expediter Creedon's staff has informed him that no more than 825,000 homes will be begun this year, and if existing federal controls and aids are removed only 750,000 will be built. Passed by the Senate last year but pigeonholed in the House, the Wagner-Ellender-Taft bill is once more running the gauntlet of Congressional consideration, this time with the same House members that led its defeat last year now completely running the show at their end of the Capitol...
Music Lesson. In Hanover, Germany, newspaper Critic Klaus Wagner was sentenced to a week's hard labor with a rubble-clearing squad for "disrespect for his elders," i.e., writing a sneering review of an opera performance...
...Supreme Court this week upheld the right of foremen under the Wagner Act to organize for collective bargaining. Said Justice Jackson for the 5-to-4 majority: though the foremen's interests lie with management in maintaining production, they may be opposed when it comes to fixing wages, hours and working conditions. Therefore, foremen must be allowed "collective action to protect their collective interests...
...Mountaineers named John H. Ross '48 as president; Robert S. McCarter '46, vice-president; Karl Wagner '46, secretary; and Lowell Chamberlain '49, treasurer...