Word: erastus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conclusion," he says, "that our job should be a reporting job." The first full job of coverage was on a report by the State Investigation Commission condemning the city's purchasing practices. Then, in 1961, Reform Candidate Rev. Robert K. Hudnut ran for mayor against the machine-picked Erastus Corning II. The papers duly reported Hudnut's charges against the machine: that it had been controlling votes through tax assessments; that it had been making huge profits in settling tax-delinquency cases. Corning won anyway, but the machine was furious with the papers. The city canceled all legal...
...Named for Swiss Theologian Thomas Lüber (1524-83), known also as Erastus, who attacked the theocratic views of Calvinism...