Word: charterers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...twelve years since City Council Candidate Barry Goldwater led it into office against a scandal-spotted Democratic administration, Phoenix's staunchly conservative, nonpartisan Charter Government has cleaned up the city's fabled old gambling and vice rings and won at least 50 civic awards for its efficient ways. With that kind of record, Charter Government should have waltzed to re-election this year. Instead, Phoenix's Mayor Samuel Mardian Jr. and his incumbent city councilmen found themselves in a bitter fight over an improbable, implausible issue. The charge: that Charter Government's candidates-as well...
...combat Communism in Phoenix," the committee put up a slate of city councilors, chose as its mayoralty candidate Insurance Man W. Buckner Hanner, 45. To start off his campaign, Hanner, a World War II fighter pilot who boasts of his membership in the John Birch Society, charged that Charter Government's city manager system was part of a plan launched by the National Municipal League (a thoroughly respectable association of U.S. civic leaders who work for such reforms as urban renewal, Metro government and modern budgeting) to further "the aims of internationalism and Communism." Hanner added that the league...
...World War II as the time when this country first replaced isolationism with a "Universalist" outlook. American and British ideas diverged at this point, he said; the Americans still thought in terms of great world power and saw their ideas reflected in the United Nations charter, obscuring Churchill's belief that the world was not ready for this sort of organization...
...heal the canyon-sized breach between the organization regulars and the Herbert Lehman-Eleanor Roosevelt reformers who backed him against the bosses.* Wagner's probable first move: replacing State Chairman Michael Prendergast, who openly backed Gerosa. Since the voters also approved a drastic reform in the city charter. Wagner will have far more control of city affairs than ever before, might be able to achieve a measure of administrative efficiency...
...convicted, Walter Wanning '64 faces a small fine, while the Club could lose its charter as a non-profit corporation...