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...brick by brick. Halley has held one office, President of the City Council, in which he voted on crucial issues with a fickleness that raises doubts as to his sincerity. Wagner has been State Assemblyman, head of the New York Planning Commission, chief of the Housing Commission and Manhattan Borough President, administering each office in a capable, if plodding manner. As long as capability is preferred to color, sincerity to slick public relations, and achievements of the past to promises of a bright future, Robert Wagner is clearly a better choice than Halley, and as such, is the best...
...British troops held Constantinople; Italy, France and Greece were secretly dividing up the best of the remainder. The greatest empire between Augustus and Victoria had shrunk to a small, lifeless inland state in the barren interiors of Asia Minor; its Sultan was reduced to the status of a borough president of Constantinople. There was talk of asking Woodrow Wilson to take over the mess as a U.S. mandate...
...food parcels," the signs read. "An example-Reinhard Dehnicke is a kulak with 44 hectares of land. He owns one tractor, three horses, 14 cows, 15 calves, five sheep, ten geese, 13 ducks, and employs two helpers." In East Berlin they pilloried Pastor Hermann Erhardt of the Pankow borough. "Has the pastor collected parcels because he is needy?" the signs asked. "He said he did it out of Christian charity. What a sham...
...G.O.P. bosses were the first to make their bow to Harlem's increasing voting strength. Last month they nominated independent Democrat Elmer A. Carter, 63, for eight years a member of the New York State Commission Against Discrimination, for the borough presidency of Manhattan, the city's most important county. Quickly, Mayor Vincent R. Impellitteri's faction of New York's badly split Democrats selected Colonel Chauncey Hooper, 59, an assistant deputy comptroller of the city and a staff officer in the New York National Guard, for the same office. In a supporting speech, the mayor...
...week's end, Tammany was still trying to find a Negro candidate of its own. Already one result of the election seemed fairly certain: Manhattan is sure of getting a Negro borough president, who will be the first Negro in the city's history to hold a major executive office...