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...party is not ticket fixing but good government. But Meehan and Hamilton blame the G.O.P.'s weakness in Philadelphia on the loss of the patronage that escaped from Republican hands when the Democratic Party captured the governorship. The machine leaders' great hope is that Republican Candidate William Scranton will beat Democrat Dilworth in next November's gubernatorial election. Then, they argue, the city organization will have more patronage to disperse, and will be able once more to provide "service." Out of the Crossfire. Johnson and his Alliance are also rooting fervently for a Scranton victory in November...
...bitter is the rivalry between the Alliance and the old G.O.P. organization in Philadelphia that Scranton has decided to stay out of the city until after the May 15 primaries to avoid getting caught in the crossfire. After the primaries (in which the Alliance and the old machine have entered separate slates of candidates for Congress and lesser offices). Scranton will face the challenge of getting the Johnson men and the Meehan men to work together as allies. If he can pass that test of political skill, he will greatly improve his prospects of beating Dilworth in November...
...hold fares down, would tolerate none of that. Roared Weinberg: "Somebody's a liar. Mayor Wagner says the company can operate with a 15? fare. I say it can't." Then Weinberg tried a whipsawing tac tic that he had previously used on balky city governments in Scranton, Pa., Dallas and Honolulu. Without higher fares, he warned. Fifth Avenue Coach would have to lay off 1,500 workers and cut down Sunday and night service. He began by sacking 29 workers, many of them old-time employees disabled on the job. In reprisal, Transport Workers Union President Michael...
...tire-recapping business, got rich by investing in Depression-era real estate. By buying low and selling high, he made a fortune after the war in depreciated bonds of the Baltimore Transit Co., saw the huge-and often overlooked-profit potentials in city transit. He bought heavily into the Scranton Transit Co., then got control as its receiver after an eight-month strike drove it to the brink of bankruptcy. Typically...
Weinberg halved the payroll and chopped services, but Scranton Transit now rides in the black, and a union man says grudgingly, "That guy kept 125 jobs that might have been lost." Then he bought control of Honolulu Transit, used Honolulu Transit assets to buy Dallas Transit, and Dallas Transit money to buy control of Fifth Avenue Coach...