Word: wagnerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four long weeks, Democrats in the New York state senate and assembly had been deadlocked in a ludicrous leadership fight between forces backed by New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner and a coalition allied with Senator Bobby Kennedy...
...Wagner simply wanted Senator Joseph Zaretzki and Assemblyman Anthony Travia, both of whom had served as legislative leaders when the Democrats were in the minority, to move up in well-organized succession to the majority-leadership posts. The Kennedy coalition wanted to move...
...Seat? The proposition, Wagner explained, was reported to him by Tammany Hall's Jones, and had been corroborated by Weinstein and O'Rourke. Asked by Chairman Grumet if he still considered this a "bribe," as he had stated publicly, Wagner replied: "It smacks...
...next witness was Jones, who said that when everyone had assembled in the hotel suite "Mr. McKeon opened the conversation by saying he had a 'couple of packages.'" Jones related McKeon's offer just as Wagner had, adding: "I said, 'It hardly seems to be worthwhile. Anything you said is of no interest to me.' " Using a commission-provided scale drawing of the meeting site, complete down to the sofa pillows, Jones described where each of the participants had sat. He recalled that McKeon had perched on a radiator, which moved Grumet to inquire...
...Spanish Renaissance patio, donated by the late, former Met president George Blumenthal, and the new Thomas J. Watson library, whose 155,000 volumes make it the largest art-literature stack in the Western Hemisphere. Topping off his week, Rorimer received the city's Medallion of Honor from Mayor Wagner...