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Friend in Need. Robert Wagner Sr. and Morris Javits were faceless in the arriving masses of the 1880s. But, like millions of other groping, bewildered, lonely immigrants, they found a friend in the New York County Democratic organization: Tammany Hall. Whatever its sins-and they were many-Tammany provided a...
Not all the immigrants lingered long enough in the city to partake of Tammany's good deeds. Some pushed northward, across the Catskills, the Mohawk Valley and the Adirondacks as far as frigid Franklin County on the Canadian border. Others moved westward across the muck flats around Syracuse to...
Steak by Mistake. Far more than is usually the case with father and son, young Bob Wagner's career had its genesis in old Bob's career. The first few years had not been easy for the German immigrant lad, who had settled with his parents in Manhattan...
Wagner met and married Margaret Marie McTague, the Catholic daughter of Irish-born parents (during their courtship he almost lost her by taking her to Feltmans Restaurant on Coney Island and ordering steaks-only to be briskly informed that it was Friday night). When their only son was christened, Tammany...
* At last month's Republican National Convention, orators usually called the opposition the "Democrat" Party. Last week the G.O.P. National Committee explained that the shortened adjective will be official Republican campaign usage because the "party of the Pender-gasts or Tammany Hall" cannot be considered a democratic party. After...