Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over civil rights, came a cropper again, this time in the fight in the House to overthrow the Taft-Hartley Act. Harried from every side, his congressional forces were trapped between a softened version of the Taft-Hartley Act and the Administration's moderately toughened version of the Wagner...
...turned aside what would have been a humiliating defeat. The Taft-Hartley Act still stood, untouched, on the books. While the fight shifted to the Senate, the House Labor Committee would try to figure a way out of the Administration's dilemma: how to toughen up the old Wagner Act enough to win back Southern support, without making it so tough that Northern Democrats would rebel...
...Just such a consideration has kept New York's ailing Democrat Robert Wagner from retiring, though he has not been seen on the floor of the Senate since May 27, 1947. Presumably, Governor Thomas E. Dewey would replace him with a Republican...
...vote on his measure. Republicans stood as a man to support this demand, then filed down the aisle to be counted against the bill. Thus, angry and embarrassed Administration leaders were forced to make a public record of the fact that out & out reinstatement of labor's cherished Wagner Act was beaten by the House by an overwhelming 275 to 37 vote...
This week both sides danced nimbly and dizzily around, looking for parliamentary advantages. The main issue, however, was pretty clear. It was whether the U.S. was to have a tougher Wagner Act or simply a softer Taft-Hartley Act. The strategy of both sides was to find amendments to make their bills look more attractive to undecided voters. The fence-sitters, not the violent partisans, were the ones who would decide the outcome...