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Scent through the Mails. In Philadelphia, 60-year-old John Wagner was held for grand jury action despite his protest that livestock on his McClure, Pa. farm needed the garbage he had been mailing...
...have given about enough publicity to "red hats" and "tin horns" of Roman Catholicism? They have rights, but should these rights be disproportionate? Is there not any room for at least a few favorable reports of significant developments in the Protestant Church. . . ? Publicity is given to one, [Senator] Bob Wagner, who has accepted baptism from the hand of a Roman Catholic priest [TIME, Feb. 11], Why not be fair next week and publish an account of the conversion of one of several Roman Catholic priests who have entered the Protestant Church in America? . . . (REV.) DONALD MACLEOD Princeton...
...enormous new crop of moderately priced houses-built to sell for a maximum of $6,000, rent for no more than $50 a month -Wyatt called for a halt to virtually all other construction. He would need rigid price controls, priorities, ceilings. And he urged passage of the Wagner-Ellender-Taft Bill, which would authorize down payments of as little as 5% and allow a buyer up to 32 years to amortize his mortgage...
...Wagner was getting old. He would be 69 in June, and he often felt unwell. Colleagues in the U.S. Senate had noted that the author of the National Labor Relations Act and many another piece of New Deal social legislation appeared less often in the seat that had been his for nearly 20 years. For New York's senior Senator, Democratic Robert Ferdinand Wagner, the time had come to take a significant religious step...
Last week, seated in a wheel chair in Manhattan's Lenox Hill Hospital, where he was recovering from influenza, bull-necked Bob Wagner was baptized in the faith of Rome by Msgr. Robert F. Keegan, director of the New York archdiocese's Catholic Charities. Though born a Lutheran (in Nastatten, Germany) and raised in the U.S. a Methodist, Senator Wagner's conversion occasioned no surprise. His wife, who died in 1919, was a Catholic; his son, Robert Jr. was brought up as a Catholic. Obviously, Convert Wagner had been considering the move for some time. Said Msgr...