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...ensure the support of the surging reform Democrats, Wagner managed to make bossism the campaign's big issue. Pale and drawn, his smile appearing as though it would fracture his face, Wagner campaigned tirelessly against such bosses as The Bronx's Charles Buckley, Brooklyn's Joseph Sharkey-and, particularly, Tammany Hall's Carmine De Sapio. Returning to his Greenwich Village apartment late one night, De Sapio was asked by a neighbor: "How's it going?" Replied De Sapio wearily: "It would be going all right if Wagner would just quit talking about bosses and discuss...
...decisive. More than 743,000 voters, a record for a Democratic primary in New York City, swarmed to the polls. They swamped the organization: Charley Buckley's once-mighty Bronx machine was able to muster only 46,000 Levitt votes against 75,000 for Wagner; in Joe Sharkey's Brooklyn, Levitt got 103,000 against Wagner's 136,000. Even in Harlem, where Preacher-Politician Adam Clayton Powell Jr., whose word is usually accepted as gospel, was supporting Levitt, Wagner won handily...
...Sapio resign. Emboldened by the applause he got for that move, Wagner decided to drop his machine-honed running mates and pick his own candidates for deputy mayor and controller. That lost him the support of two borough bosses far more powerful than De Sapio: Brooklyn's Joseph Sharkey and The Bronx' Charles Buckley. For this belated display of courage, Wagner earned the endorsement of the New York Times, which admitted that his administration has been "shot through with an accumulation of defects and scandals." But, said the Times, Wagner was unlike Levitt in that...
...announced his choices. He dumped Gerosa, picked able Deputy Mayor Paul R. Screvane, 46, to run as city council president, downrated Brooklyn Haberdasher Stark to controller. The move took Stark out of the line of succession should the mayor resign for a federal appointment. Cried Brooklyn Boss Joseph T. Sharkey, white-faced with anger: "I think the Jewish people in this town might feel they were trying to get rid of Abe and make it impossible for a Jew to become mayor...
...MARGARET SHARKEY Carstairs Gallery New York City...