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Dangerous Footing. It was all very noisy, but it should not have seemed so shocking. The offering of jobs, in return either for support or for the withdrawal of candidacy, is about as old as politics itself. In 1860, Abraham Lincoln's aides promised Political Boss Simon Cameron a place as Secretary of War in return for the Republican convention backing of Cameron's key Pennsylvania delegation. In 1951, President Harry Truman appointed Minnesota Republican Luther Youngdahl to a federal district judgeship (a position he still holds) to remove Youngdahl from an impending contest with Democrat Hubert Humphrey...
...stag luncheon in a Brooklyn restaurant last week, Abraham M. Lindenbaum, a member of the New York City Planning Commission, rose up over the coffee cups and asked the 43 guests how much they were prepared to contribute to Mayor Robert Wagner's campaign for reelection. Each guest stood up in turn and announced his pledge. In the end, the mayor's campaign purse was some $25,000 heavier. Not one of the guests-all builders and real estate men, many of whom do business with the city-failed to pledge at least $100, and some offered...
...Both the Cromwellian and French revolutions were corrupted by utopian illusions and the confusion of contradictory visions of social perfection. Abraham Lincoln was dogged by the absolutistic demands of Horace Greeley, William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips, and he had more genuine charity than all of them. In the interventionist controversy preceding World War II we were confronted by a frequently noxious combination of nationalistic and perfectionist isolationism, trying to persuade the nation to remain pure by remaining irresponsible ...Some of the soberness of Catholic social theory certainly derives from its exclusion from the political realm of the yearning...
Driving the century-old family store to new heights is a white-haired, crew-cut retailing iconoclast, Richard Benjamin Gump, 55, grandson of the founder. When Dick Gump took over full management in 1947, his father, A. (for Abraham) Livingston Gump, had already built the store into one of the Occident's richest treasure houses of the Orient's art. Dick shocked Gump's older patrons by streamlining the temple-quiet, museumlike showrooms into tastefully contemporary salesrooms. And though the Oriental accent still dominates, Gump's small task force of buyers, led by Dick himself, scours...
Died. Nathan Straus, 72, civic-minded scion of a New York mercantile clan which built its fortunes on Macy's and Abraham & Straus, a sometime journalist (Puck, the old New York Globe) and first administrator (1937-42) of the U.S. Housing Authority; in Massapequa...