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...nomination on an early ballot. And the most swingable bloc belonged to U.S. Representative Charles Buckley, the boss of The Bronx. This was downright embarrassing : after all, Bob Wagner had won reelection in 1961 on his promise to oust all of New York City's borough bosses, and of these Buckley was the sole survivor...
Died. Stanley Myer Isaacs, 79, white-haired political reformer and onetime Republican borough president of Manhattan (1938-41), who later served for 20 years (often as the only Republican) on the New York City Council, earned the bipartisan support of both Democrats and Liberals for his long fight to clean up the city's festering slums; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...Sharkey,* and I get it." Such loyalty is a quality Kennedy, too, can appreciate-and reciprocate. And Buckley came to have need of Kennedy's help. Last year Mayor Wagner, whom Buckley helped get elected mayor initially in 1953, fell out with New York's borough bosses, including Buckley. Re-elected to a third term, Wagner vowed to oust Buckley both from the House seat and his Bronx bossdom...
...secretary of the league, Menon gave soapbox speeches, got sympathetic left-wing intellectuals like Laski, Bertrand Russell and Stafford Cripps to preach the gospel of Indian independence. Menon lived in a dreary bed-sitter in Camden Town in London's working-class borough of St. Pancras, eked out a living by writing occasional legal briefs, often lacked enough money for a meal. He became involved in Labor Party politics, served as a member of the St. Pancras borough council, where he is still remembered as "the best library chairman we ever had." For his work, he became...
...biggest Democratic stronghold, or at least to come close. But even in defeat, Republicans, long lacking an effective city organization, had some reason to feel encouraged by the outcome. Lefkowitz, polling 836,553 votes, did better than expected and carried ten of 65 assembly districts, including the entire borough of Richmond (Staten Island), which Wagner won by 18,600 votes in 1957. In The Bronx, running with the support of the labor-backed Liberal Party, Republican Joseph F. Periconi won the borough presidency from a hand-picked candidate of Congressman Charles Buckley, most puissant of the Democratic bosses...