Word: wagnerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York City's hapless Democratic Mayor Robert Wagner tried, and failed. New York state's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller tried, and made no visible progress. Then, on the day after he was sworn in as U.S. Secretary of Labor, longtime Union Lawyer Arthur Goldberg flew to Manhattan to make his own effort toward ending the railroad-tugboat strike that had stranded some 100,000 commuters and stalled railroad travel as far west as Chicago. After 14 hours behind closed doors with union and management negotiators, Goldberg emerged triumphant-and next day the trains began to run again...
Caught right in the middle was poor Mayor Bob Wagner, long a De Sapio protégé, who is in desperate need of the reformers' support if he is to have the slightest chance of reelection. But the reformers were by no means eager to support Wagner; indeed, nine reform clubs representing three-quarters of the reform membership in Manhattan openly oppose him and his corruption-ridden administration. Facing political crisis, Wagner resolutely promised to answer De Sapio's challenge and to break openly with his old sponsor. After three days, though, Wagner was still hesitating...
...chief lieutenant, State Chairman Mike Prendergast, had suffered humiliations at the Kennedy inaugural, where they were pointedly snubbed (gloated one reform Democrat: "They just wandered around the lobby of the Mayflower Hotel like a couple of farm boys"). But Kennedy was far from ready to trust in Bob Wagner's ability to solve New York's Democratic problems. At his press conference last week, Kennedy said: "Well, the people in New York have to make their judgments as to what kind of a party they want to build there. I have asked Mr. [John M.] Bailey...
...permanent conductor of the Brussels Opera. In London and Paris guest appearances, he has been greeted as the most exciting new conductor to come along in years, and at least one critic found him, at 30, "the equal of the greatest." The Vandernoot repertory runs to "Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Wagner, Bartok and the Sacre du Printemps, but not the rest of Stravinsky." A late starter ("I admire people," says he, "who start shivering at the age of three when mother sings false"), Vandernoot first studied the flute, soon found himself slipping off into the woods to conduct an imaginary orchestra...
...That done, Wagner could make the race for re-election this year, with Felt as his running mate and reform support, and probably win. The plan calls for him to step down soon after, leaving his job to Felt and plucking for himself a ripe Kennedy ambassadorship (rumored: Ireland or Israel) or a new Cabinet post (rumored: Secretary of Urban Redevelopment). As a leading reform Democratic officeholder said: "Wagner is neither a strong man nor a decisive person. A federal appointment is logical...