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...third term. A docile favorite of Tammany Hall during his first seven years, Wagner this year annoyed the bosses by picking his own-and abler-running mates: Civil Servants Abraham Beame for controller, Paul Screvane for council president. For that effrontery, Wagner had to defeat State Controller Arthur Levitt, the bosses' choice, in a primary to win the Democratic nomination. But the primary gave Wagner what he badly needed: an issue. Ignoring the past, the mayor promised to put an end to "boss rule" if reelected, vowed to clean up the civic mess that had developed...
...Mayor Robert Ferdinand Wagner swept to a landslide Democratic primary victory at the head of a reform slate sworn to clean up the municipal mess that had grown up during Wagner's own eight hapless years in office. Wagner won by 160,000 votes over State Controller Arthur Levitt, the candidate of New York City's regular Democratic organization. And in the process of rolling up that plurality, Wagner dealt a mortal blow to the bosses who had twice previously helped him get elected mayor-and whose virtues he had, in past years, praised lavishly...
Career's End. De Sapio's forebodings were well taken. Election Day was pleasantly mild-just the sort of weather to attract voters-and colorless Candidate Levitt's chances rested on a small turnout, in which his organization support might be decisive. More than 743,000 voters, a record for a Democratic primary in New York City, swarmed to the polls. They swamped the organization: Charley Buckley's once-mighty Bronx machine was able to muster only 46,000 Levitt votes against 75,000 for Wagner; in Joe Sharkey's Brooklyn, Levitt...
...between June and September 1960 at Gracie Mansion, the mayor's official residence. Bob Wagner rose in righteous indignation. "I," he cried, "am the first mayor to pay my own food bills at Gracie Mansion." Then Wagner began tossing out his own accusations: he charged both Gerosa and Levitt with responsibility for a deal that enabled the sponsors of a Queens housing project to make a windfall profit of $2,400,000. Understandably pained, Democrat Levitt accused Wagner of issuing a "vile, vicious slander." The mayor, he cried, was "unfit to hold public office." As for Republican Lefkowitz...
...last week, New York City's voters seemed almost as confused as the can didates. The Times, reporting on a Levitt foray into the garment district, discovered that many voters still did not know who the state controller was-and that those who recalled the name thought he was Lefkowitz. Levitt was regarded as a slight favorite in the Democratic primary on the basis that a small turnout (400,000 or less) would enable his organization support to pull him through. But even if Wagner is defeated in the primary, he will still be the nominee of the Liberal...