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There could be one big hitch in the plans: New York City's five counties alone have 512 votes, mostly controlled by Tammany and Mayor Robert F. Wagner Jr. Like F.D.R. Jr., Wagner wants to follow a father's tracks-in his case, to the U.S. Senate. Wagner...
Communist has found, like Branko, that life as a party member is not all slivovitz and skittles. The Zagreb congress officially decreed that henceforth, the prime mission of Yugoslavia's Communists was not to command but to persuade. In one swoop it sent down the drain the hopes of...
Theodore Roosevelt became a myth ahead of his time. This was partly due to a heroic combination of energy and diverse talents. The U.S. has had few public officials who could get equal enjoyment from shooting a charging rhino or writing an essay on Dante, from outwitting Manhattan's...
About to step out of office as mayor of New York after a resounding defeat in the September primary, Impellitteri had been wondering how he could get a $15,000-a-year lifetime post on the board of water supply, an office he once described as useless. In the end...
The reason for this strange pattern of events became crystal clear the next day, when New York City's new mayor, Tammany-backed, Bronx-backed Robert F. Wagner Jr., announced some of his own appointments. Named a justice of Brooklyn's court of special sessions (which deals mostly...