Word: cagerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recent voter registration drive in Marion, and on February 18 he joined 400 others in an evening protest march. State troopers used nightsticks and cattle prods to break up the demonstration. Newspaper reporters saw dozens of Negroes chased and clubbed in the moonlit streets. Among those beaten was Cager Lee, Jackson's 82-year-old grandfather; Lee was later hospitalized with open scalp wounds and bruises...
Around them flocked William McKeon, the vain, insecure State Chairman who owed his office to Wagner but felt the Mayor treated him like a "file clerk;" Stanley Steingut, a Wagner enemy who was cager to be the Assembly's Speaker; several upstate leaders seeking a more influential role; and two pragmatic reformers from New York City's West Side, impatient for advancement and irritated by Wagner's indifference. As the coalition's efforts seemed to approach success, others desirous of a share of the legislature's $4.3 million patronage joined...