Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week began, the Senate settled down to voting on amendments to the Administration's Thomas bill, a slightly thickened second serving of the old Wagner Act. The key question was how to handle strikes which jeopardized the national welfare...
...Wagner quit just in time to do his fellow Democrats the most good. Had he resigned after July 8, Governor Thomas E. Dewey could have appointed a Republican successor to serve until January 1951. Now, although Dewey may appoint someone to fill the post temporarily, a special fall election must be held to elect a Senator to fill out Wagner's term. New Yorkers were in for some hot, midsummer politicking. The Senator's unexciting son, Robert F. Wagner Jr., hinted that he would like the job. Tom Dewey said he didn't want it himself...
...friend once pointed out that the New York Senator's own life was proof that it is possible to rise from the slums (his father was a janitor for a tenement house on Manhattan's East Side). Said Wagner bitterly: "That is the most God-awful bunk. I came through it, yes. That was luck, luck, luck. Think of the others...
Last week, 64 years after he arrived in the U.S. from his native Germany and 44 years after he undertook his first public office (as a New York State assemblyman), 72 year-old Senator Robert F. Wagner said his farewell to politics. The famed old liberal, long disabled by the infirmities of age, wrote: "My turn has come to step down ... I have had my fair share of shining hours when the country approved my labors and when I saw the reforms for which I struggled so firmly established that many took them for granted...
...years in the Senate, Robert Wagner had indeed had his shining hours. As a driving, unspectacular protagonist of the New Deal, Wagner had sponsored such far-reaching social legislation as the Social Security Act, the U.S. Housing Act, the National Industrial Recovery Act (NRA), the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Wagner Labor Relations...