biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1908–87)
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| biography:
| Lawyer and government official, born in Charleston, South Carolina, USA. Senator Robert Wagner's legislative aide in the 1930s, he drafted the Social Security and Labor Relations Acts. A liberal member of Truman's Council of Economic Advisors (1946–52), he advocated full employment. Afterward he served as legal counsel to public employee unions. |
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