THE PRESIDENCY: Partnership Papers

Papers for President Roosevelt's proposed "partnership" between Government and Business finally reached the White House last week. Late one evening New York's Senator Wagner handed them to President Roosevelt as the best composite thought of a swarm of Administration advisers. The President carried them with him on a quiet Sunday cruise down the Potomac, mulled over their details, began to think out a special message with which to submit them to Congress this week.

For long days and nights Senator Wagner, Democratic expert on unemployment relief legislation, had been working over a National...

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