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Most New Yorkers have long since given up hope of ever having a ready effective city government; in the Wagner-Lefkowitz debate they neither expected nor got a serious discussion of municipal problems. But if the purpose of the debate was to project personalities, it was a considerable success. Manhattan...
Free to do anything you choose Free to wait tables and shine shoes. Gee, Officer Krupke is a touching, light-hearted tribute to those municipal marvels-magistrates, civil service psychiatrists, social workers, policemen on the beat-who so often, without even trying, are able to develop a mere juvenile delinquent...
Proof of the effectiveness of this system has been the electoral performance of Cambridge's only municipal political organization, the Civic Association. Although the adoption of many of its programs has helped the city build one of the better and cleaner urban governments in a state where these qualities are...
Although he has offered a very feasible explanation for the dilemma of Massachusetts, at one point Richardson carries his thesis too far. "Where political careers are built on favors and rewards, recriminations and reprisals," he writes, "it is natural that the political careerist should attach only secondary importance to the...
Wagner's two opponents in the mayorality race reacted furiously. In telegrams to the city's Board of Ethics, Republican Louis J. Lefkowitz suggested that the pledges might have violated the city charter, which forbids city employees from accepting gifts "from any person, firm or corporation which, to...