Word: tuckers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Everyone in St. Louis seemed surprised when Alfonso Juan Cervantes, 44, great-great-grandson of a Spanish immigrant and a jack-of-all-trades, from insurance to taxicabs to resorts, trounced respected, three-term Mayor Raymond R. Tucker, 68, in the Democratic primary last month. But no one was in the slightest surprised when, last week, Cervantes won the general election...
...BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Olivia de Havilland is host to Dorothv Collins, Richard Tucker and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Color...
More Than the Machines. In his attempt to win a fourth term, Tucker was done in by St. Louis' Democratic ward leaders, who have never liked him. A onetime Washington University engineering professor, Tucker made a name for himself in the 1930s when, as his city's first smoke commissioner, he was instrumental in getting through a strong anti-smoke ordinance that went a long way toward cleaning out St. Louis' polluted air. Reform-minded business leaders in 1953 nominated Tucker as an independent Democratic candidate for mayor, and Tucker defeated the Democratic machine candidate...
...this year's party primary the ward heelers got their revenge, joined forces behind Cervantes, who gained the endorsement of 20 of the city's 28 ward organizations. However, there was more to it than machine politics. After twelve years in office, Tucker, now 68, had begun showing signs of wear (in 1961 his right lung was removed because of a tumor...
...Progress Gap." Moreover, Tucker's slum-clearance projects had generated bitter protests among the people who were displaced, mostly Negroes, and among those into whose neighborhoods the displaced were moved. Negro leaders threw their support to Cervantes despite the fact that Tucker had consistently backed ordinances barring discrimination in public accommodations, employment and housing. Finally, Cervantes charged that, for all Tucker's works, St. Louis had suffered a "progress gap," and simply promised to do more faster...