Word: fared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cohn, 35, the boy Torquemada of the McCarthy era, Weinberg and friends bought up 23% of Fifth Avenue's stock for $3,500,000, put Weinberg in the driver's seat. Straightway, he began to complain that the company was barreling toward bankruptcy, demanded a fare boost from 15? to 20? to save it. Mayor Wagner, who had promised to hold fares down, would tolerate none of that. Roared Weinberg: "Somebody's a liar. Mayor Wagner says the company can operate with a 15? fare. I say it can't." Then Weinberg tried a whipsawing...
...which he has long helped bury in the dung-heap of rhetoric and red-tape which is Albany. In the present case, he has misjudged the Mayor. For the Mayor has recently learned at great expense the responsibilities of a real politician, and is not likely to support a fare-rise, even if he is worked on by whatever survives of "the boys" after last November's election...
...adequate system will involve a far-reaching reorganization of the City's transportation network, ultimately including take-over of the West chester and Lower Connecticut branches of the New Haven and perhaps the Long Island Railroad. The question of rates and fares will be a vexing one, but its introduction into the present controversy is a little misleading. For the real issue here is not a possible fare-rise; New Yorkers would grumble and pay, if they got in return a comfortable ride and a better-ordered city. What is at stake in the Weinberg-Wagner donnybrook is the City...
...should be rapidly reversed. Yet the pontifical Mr. Mahoney stated yesterday, "I will not be a party to any hastily contrived and poorly disguised effort by Mayor Wagner to sacrifice the passengers and the employees of the Fifth Avenue Coach Lines in preparation for a 20-cent fare on all the subway and bus lines operating in New York...
...Weinberg has no real support even among these men; he offends everyone he talks to. In any event, the fare-rise is not the crucial problem, as noted. So Mr. Mahoney, with a crudity no one outside Albany could possibly imitate, is simply trying to make political hay out of the discomfiture of about one million New Yorkers. One hopes, after Tammany's defeat, that the Mayor will prove able to foster that political renaissance the city so desperately needs; but it will not be matched upstate for a while. The present struggle will be just another chapter...