Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Board Chairman Andrew Heiskell, its leaders range from David Rockefeller to George Meany, Martin Luther King to New York City Mayor John Lindsay...
...abrupt turnabout. The week before, Rockefeller had dictated settlement terms already rejected by city hall through the extraordinary device of proposing that the state temporarily take over the sanitation department. That seemed to leave his fellow Republican, Mayor John Lindsay, no option except surrender. Lindsay had the choice of signing a contract he had already described as a "little bit of blackmail" or watching the state move in and fulfill the same terms with city funds...
...Little Blackmail. Rockefeller, with control over the Guard his trump, seized the initiative from Lindsay by taking over the negotiations. He named his own mediation panel to supplant the mayor's and treated the outlaw union with unwonted deference. Rockefeller's mediators proposed a pay increase of $425. The union accepted immediately, and the Governor hailed the proposal as "fair and reasonable." Lindsay rejected it out of hand. Though the difference over wages had become seemingly insignificant, Lindsay was determined not to reward the strikers with a figure above what the union leadership had been willing to accept...
When the board demanded an investigation, the council, under leadership of then Mayor Elliott Roosevelt, adopted a resolution calling for dissolution of the board. Last week the Art Dealers Association of America charged that the authenticity of at least eleven of the most important paintings in the Bass Museum "is open to serious question...
...Christian activist of unflagging energy, he nonetheless believed that it was the business of the church to change the hearts of men, not to change society. Although frequently engaged in politics-he was the Prohibition candidate for Governor of Ohio in 1912 and four decades later ran unsuccessfully for mayor of Philadelphia as a Republican-Poling fought all his life to preserve the separation of church and state. Above all, he had a profound yet simple faith in God, the words of the Bible, and Jesus, whose biography, he said, could be summed up in five words: "He went about...