Word: wagnerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dahlman, 21, dropped out of New York City's Wagner College this fall and began to devote full time to the pari-mutuel teaching machines on the oval campus of Yonkers Raceway. His discriminating bets on the trotters soon put him $15,000 ahead, surely enough to make him an honor student among dropouts. Then, fortnight ago, he broke the record at Yonkers U., picking twin-double winners two nights in succession and walking off with $176,482.20 in prize money (half the lifetime earnings of the average college graduate...
Even before victory was certain, Robert Kennedy received the congratulations of admirers. The politicians, family friends, and celebrities who crowded in to see him included Mayor Wagner, Governor Harriman, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. '38 and Mariene Dietrich...
...LABOR--If Wirtz leaves he will probably be replaced by James Reynolds, the present Assistant Secretary, or Theodore Kheel, New York lawyer, friend of New York's Mayor Wagner, and well-known arbitrator of labor disputes...
...Bobby was Massachusetts-born and -oriented, and a resident of Virginia besides. But he knew where the power was, quickly lined up New York's Democratic bosses behind him, notably Buffalo's Peter Crotty, Brooklyn's Stanley Steingut, and Charlie Buckley of The Bronx. New York's Mayor Robert Wagner, reluctantly, also fell into line...
...California, Teddy Kennedy in Massachusetts, and Joseph Tydings, who was a U.S. Attorney under Kennedy, in Maryland-with a total of 64 electoral votes among them on top of New York's 43, one Democrat cried: "It will be a United States of Kennedy." In a meeting with Mayor Wagner, a group of reformers protested: "Bobby Kennedy is a ruthless, unprincipled, frighteningly ambitious young man who intends to use the New York State Democratic Party to launch his presidential ambitions." Later, 120 reformers, including Playwright Gore (The Best Man) Vidal, Niagara Falls Mayor E. Dent Lackey and Actor Paul Newman...