Word: wagnerism
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...eleven days, leaders of the Democratic Party increased the pressure on New York's Mayor Robert F. Wagner. Adlai Stevenson, Averell Harriman, Herbert Lehman-singly and collectively-begged Wagner to accept the nomination for the U.S. Senate seat that will be left vacant by Lehman's retirement. Stevenson needed him: on Bob Wagner's coattails, there was a chance that Adlai might win New York's 45 electoral votes. Last week Wagner finally announced his "considered" decision...
Yearn From Childhood. Since childhood Bob Wagner, now 46, has yearned for the Senate seat that was held 22 years by his famed father, the New Deal stalwart for whom the Wagner Labor Relations Act was named. But Young Bob was plainly reluctant to run this year. The obvious time would have been against Republican Irving Ives in 1958-when he would not be bucking a ticket headed by Dwight Eisenhower. Moreover, for a family man there was the matter of personal sacrifice. As mayor, Wagner gets $40,000 a year in salary, $25,000 a year tax-free...
There were weightier considerations, however, and eventually they won out. Wagner, immensely gregarious, has wide appeal in polyglot New York (a Catholic of German-Irish extraction, he married a Quaker girl, Susan Edwards, in 1942). If, as the Democrats' only proved vote-getter, he turned down the party now-when its need is so great-he would run the risk that its affronted leaders would deny him the nomination in 1958. On the other hand, if he lost this year, he could return to his mayor's job and still be assured another try at the Senate. With...
Labor. Both support the right to organize, full employment, federal aid for depressed areas. At issue: the Democrats advocate outright repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act and a return to something more like the Wagner Act; the Republicans suggest modification and improvement of Taft-Hartley. The Democrats also propose an increase in the national minimum wage from $1 to $1.25 an hour; the Republicans mention no increase, but want to extend the minimum-wage-law protection to more workers...
...York. Two-term Democratic Senator Herbert Lehman, 78, decided last week that he would not run for reelection, gave his endorsement to New York City's popular Mayor Robert Wagner, who, at week's end, had no real opposition. On the Republican side, the leading contender is G.O.P. Attorney General Jacob Javits, 52, the only Republican to win a statewide office in 1954. New York's November outlook: nip, tuck, and rough...