Word: sharkey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crackpot mood, voted 23-1 to appoint a committee to study secession once again, this time not from the grand old Union but from New York State. Reason: Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller and the Republican-run state legislature were, in the words of Brooklyn Democrat Joseph T. Sharkey, "robbing us." The point: New York City contributes roughly 50% of the state budget, gets back only 38% of state expenditures on services. But one lone Republican, standing against a house divided, threw in an argument that stung the most ardent secessionists. Said Stanley M. Isaacs, onetime Theodore Roosevelt Bull Mooser...
Mayor Wagner last May set the enactment of this bill as a chief aim of his administration; and it was steered through the City Council by Majority Leader Joseph T. Sharkey, Councilman Earl Brown, and Minority Leader Stanley Isaacs. As originally conceived, the bill would have made discrimination in rentals punishable by a fine of $500. This stronger version, however, was weakened in committee; and as finally passed the law provides for no punitive measures and includes a more elaborate procedure for pressing complaints than was originally desired by the bill's sponsors...
...remedy appears to lie in fully integrated housing. But this seems far away. The Sharkey-Brown-Isaacs bill now in the New York Legislature would seek to enforce stringently nondiscriminatory policies in private housing. This is being fought by people who fear that an influx of non-whites will decrease property values. Unofficial covenants between property owners have long kept a pattern of tenants satisfactory to those in the better neighborhoods. When these covenants break down, trouble and violence--such as the recent riots in Levittown, Pa.--result. New York is in for a long struggle in its effort...
Gossip Monger. In 1926, Ed saw an attractive brunette sitting at a nightclub table with some friends of his. He joined them and met 20-year-old Sylvia Weinstein. He promptly invited Sylvia to a heavyweight fight between Jack Sharkey and Harry Wills. It was the first prizefight Sylvia had ever seen, and she recalls that she tried hard to like it. Three and a half years later, Ed and Sylvia were married in the rectory of a Roman Catholic Church in West Orange, N.J. Sylvia has remained a Jew, but their daughter Betty has been raised a Catholic. Meanwhile...
...dance. Students like Guy Pène du Bois and Edward Hopper became Henri enthusiasts. So did Rockwell Kent. Assigned to paint Central Park, Kent is said to have spent the night sleeping on a park bench to get in the right mood. Young George Bellows took to haunting Sharkey's Athletic Club across the street, and was soon turning out prizefighting scenes that set shocked New York critics back on their heels. John Sloan roamed downtown Manhattan's streets and bars, finding there the storytelling incidents that made him the Big City's first big painter...