Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Burst. Dave Lawrence began his political schooling early. His teamster father was Democratic chairman of lower Pittsburgh's tough Third Ward. At 14 young Dave landed his first job: office boy to Democratic City Chairman William J. Brennan. Lawrence became Allegheny County chairman at 31, discovered that in Republican Pennsylvania the prestige was hollow. When Hyde Park's Franklin Roosevelt rolled into the White House, Democrat Dave Lawrence rolled into statewide power, dragging with him his own candidate for governor, Businessman George H. Earle...
Earle turned out to be a playboy governor; Lawrence, as secretary of the commonwealth, ran 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...
...proved to be a valuable political ally. He ordered strict enforcement of smoke-control ordinances, pressured Democrats at Harrisburg and Washington to pass laws and approve appropriations that helped build new roads, bridges and dams. His reward: the business community's gratitude. Four years ago Lawrence's Republican opponent was not even invited to participate in the face-saving of a ground-breaking ceremony where Dick Mellon publicly put a potent arm around Dave Lawrence's shoulder...
Visiting Manhattan last week to boost the National Fund for Medical Education, President Eisenhower took time as well to boost an old friend. Summoned to Ike's Waldorf-Astoria suite for 15 minutes of pleasantries and pictures was Robert Keaton Christenberry, 58, Republican candidate for mayor of New York in next week's election. Christenberry has had rough going battling the entrenched solidity of Incumbent Democrat Robert F. (for Ferdinand) Wagner Jr., who has served one four-year term, wants a second, has a good chance in Democratic New York City of getting what he wants. Candidate Christenberry...
Selected last summer as the mayoralty candidate when more likely prospects shied away, Hotelman Christenberry (Astor, Ambassador) soon ran into difficulty finding either 1) a choler-provoking issue or 2) money. So uninspired were New York Republican leaders over mayoralty chances that contributions which should have gone to the city campaign went instead to the G.O.P. state and national committees. Unable to afford TV saturation of New York's 2,400,000 voters, Christenberry has contented himself with strained sidewalk handshakes and alliterative speeches. (Wagner, he said last week, was a "municipal Milquetoast" of "dynamic indecision, vigorous vacillation...