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Wagner Credited For Public Works Drive And Reforms
In this World at a Glance column, Leslie Eichel credits Senator Robert F. Wagner of New York with pushing a planned employment program as President Hoover’s policies falter and Roosevelt’s administration debates bank reform. The piece notes housing slums being replaced slowly in New York, high apartment vacancies especially in Manhattan, while textile manufacturers show renewed revival after postwar downturn.
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Leslie Eichel
New York
Robert F. Wagner
Wagner
Senate
Federal Employment Service
Herbert Hoover
New Yorker
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Financial New York
Roosevelt
Carter Glass
Virginia
Secretary of the Treasury
William H. Woodin
Cleveland
Manhattan
Manhattan Tenments
Brooklyn
Queens
Bronx