Word: abe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Abe Beame need do is adopt the Khmer solution. That is, order every man, woman and child out of the city...
...York that rivals the worst days of Richard Nixon and his gang of cutthroats." Varying the analogy, he added: "We didn't even get 30 pieces of silver." But Ford argued persuasively that he was acting in the best interests of New York. In his "Dear Abe" letter of rejection, the President wrote that lending money to the city or guaranteeing a New York note offering would "merely postpone coming to grips with the problem." Backing him up was Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, whose nearly 15 years in the Albany statehouse convinced him that Beame had not done enough...
...mayor has a few advantages. A homespun accountant who joined the city government in 1946, he can speak to the civil servants with rolled-up-sleeves rapport. Union members do not distrust him, as they did John Lindsay. Unlike Lindsay, who was always feuding with Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Abe Beame gets along well with Governor Hugh Carey - an asset in a city that receives almost one-third of its budget from the state. In addition, the city's ambitious comptroller, Harrison Goldin, an earlier critic of Beame's financial housekeeping, has quieted down to help...
...their working hours reduced. Police blame unemployment for a recent jump in robberies and purse snatchings; many of the culprits who have been caught are jobless first-time offenders. Calling last week for more federal funds to create summer jobs for restless youth, New York City Mayor Abe Beame said: "The social toll of this kind of unwilling idleness among our young people could be devastating...
...around Washington who remember the bonus marchers of 1932 recall them as actually on a "hunger march." The men were destitute. Attorney Thomas ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran watched General Douglas MacArthur and his aide Dwight Eisenhower ride off to disperse this pitiful army on the Anacostia flats. New Dealer Abe Fortas came down as a kid lawyer out of Yale in the summer of 1933. He arrived in the Department of Agriculture with his suitcase and did not unpack it for three days and nights. He stayed right there working round the clock on a program to help save...