Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Robert Christenberry by a plurality just under the 1,000,000 that Tammany Boss Carmine DeSapio had predicted for him, catching new votes in long-standing Republican counties. In New York State, for the first time in 20 years, Democrats elected more mayors (29) than Republicans did (23). In Pittsburgh. Mayor David Leo Lawrence's fourth-term win established another record-breaking plurality. And in Republican New Jersey, where, to dike the Democratic tide, both President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon added weight to the ardent campaigning of Republican Malcolm Forbes, Governor Robert Meyner swamped Forbes (see below...
...year local elections, often treacherous to politicians and political pundits, usually turn on a name, a face or a voice. Among the names, faces and voices that came through last week: CJ In Pittsburgh (pop. 680,000), Mayor Dave Lawrence, 68, a Democratic boss who runs the wards and precincts with a clenched fist and welcomes civic redevelopment projects with an open hand (TIME, Nov. 4), ignored feeble Republican attempts to trip him on such issues as Little Rock and a local trolley strike (typically, both strikers and management came to Dave Lawrence's defense), rolled to a fourth...
...that I have." Rather pensively, Dwight Eisenhower noted: "This is one of those falls where I seem to have a lot of things on my plate, and it is hard to tell which to attack first." Four days later Sputnik II, too, dropped on Ike's plate. The Pittsburgh Press expressed a nation's mood: SHOOT THE MOON...
...Pennsylvania. He made one impolitic mistake. In a burst of bipartisanship, he sanctioned appointment of a Republican attorney general, eventually found himself indicted on graft and corruption charges for passing out illegal contracts and "macing" state employees for political contributions. Cleared after two lengthy trials, Lawrence went home to Pittsburgh to recoup prestige. He engineered the election of two ineffectual Democratic mayors, finally in 1945 decided he could better handle the job himself...
Last week the Mellon arm was still there, all three Pittsburgh newspapers had endorsed his reelection, the machine was rolling, and Dave Lawrence was on the way to a fourth term. There were few who would say him nay, despite such displays of untidy municipal housekeeping as potholes in the streets and frequent scandal in the police department. For King David, on behalf of bosses everywhere, had tested a new proverb and proved its wisdom: in time of prosperity one towering skyscraper is the equivalent of 7,000 city jobs...