Word: wagnerism
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...Capitol Hill, word spread last week that Franklin Roosevelt was prepared to take Congress into his confidence, would welcome its help on postwar planning. New York's Senator Robert F. Wagner, great & good friend of the President, said that he would soon introduce a resolution for a joint planning committee: three members from the Senate, three from the House, six appointed by the President...
Ever since Wagner's death, the excitement of hearing and reviewing new music has been dying out, and, with the exception of a politically inspired flare-up in Shostakovitch's case, is almost dead. Gilman of the Herald Tribune, who died a couple of years ago, was the last survivor of the great days of Wagner controversy when a fashionable New York club had to put up signs to the effect that discussions of politics and Wagner were forbidden in the smoking room. As late as the summer of '39 Gilman wrote about a Wagner performance in the Tribune...
Without suggesting how the Wagner Act should be amended, Kaiser would like to see it given an overhauling by Congress to make it "an effective instrument for settlement of industrial conflict." This week he seemed to be getting some backing from labor itself. In an open letter to Congress, William Green, head of A.F. of L., declared that "someone in authority within the government" has got to stop jurisdictional rows...
...time when the drive for repeal of the Wagner Act is already well under way, a small section of labor has been so reckless as to draw public condemnation upon the entire industrial organization movement. The first in months to violate labor's anti-strike pledge, the union is no run-of-the-mill union, but rather John L. Lewis' own United Mine Workers. This is not the usual workers vs. management strike; instead it is a rank and file revolt against autocratic union leadership which railroaded through the recent dues increase...
...lines in Congress are tightly drawn. Last year Republicans refused to join Southern Democrats in a concerted attack on the Wagner Act, but during this session, when the GOP is counting on Southern support in many crucial votes, Republicans may have to reciprocate. Such a coalition may easily carry...