So it was at this point that the New Deal took a very significant turn. and the Senator who played the largest role in that development was Robert Ferdinand Wagner of New York. When we speak of significant Senators in the twentieth century. Robert Wagner must be numbered among them. Born in Germany. he immigrated to the United States at the age of nine with his family. His father was a janitor in a New York tenement where the Wagner family lived in the basement. his mother took in laundry. and young Robert Wagner got his start as a newsboy. His brothers saved enough to send him to the City College of New York and to New York Law School.
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