Word: wagnerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leaders endorsed him. Then, under a barrage of pressure from Bobby's friends, regular Democratic district leaders throughout the state surrendered in rapid succession. Finally, only one major bulwark still stood against the blitz: the state's most powerful Democrat, New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner. "Dazzling Magic." Last week the walls came tumbling down-and there stood Bob Wagner. There can be no question of Bob Kennedy's "personal eminence," said the mayor, nor "of the appealing nature of his great public achievements, nor of the dazzling magic of his name. The vision, imagination...
...that office, amid talk that too many New Yorkers would consider him a carpetbagger from Massachusetts. Now he seemed to be reconsidering. At week's end, without any fanfare, he met privately for an hour in Manhattan with New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner, who is not particularly anxious to see Bobby make the race. After the meeting, Kennedy left as silently as he had arrived, and went away for a few more days of thought...
...Martin Luther King Jr. flew into New York to lend his counsel in easing the city's racial trouble. Before long, local Negro leaders were complaining publicly that King had ignored them and. anyway, that he was not speaking for them. Nonetheless, King and Mayor Robert Wagner met five times in four days. Not much of substance came out of the meetings. But King's trip was not entirely fruitless: while in town he joined other national civil rights generals in a summit conference. At the end, N.A.A.C.P. Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins released a statement calling on Negroes...
When a hyperimaginative CORE leader named Herbert Callender tried to arrest New York City's Mayor Robert F. Wagner a few weeks ago, he was operating on the correct assumption that everyone has a common-law right to perform a "citizen's arrest." As Callender saw it, His Honor was guilty of a felony-misappropriating public funds by allowing racial discrimination on city-sponsored construction projects. Callender was arrested for disorderly conduct and carted off to Bellevue Hospital for mental observation. Though he was soon released from the hospital (in time to face a court hearing this week...
...while King and Wagner were closeted in Gracie Mansion, James Farmer, head of the Congress of Racial Equality, and John Lewis, National Chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, both announced they could not endorse the call of four other negro leaders for a moratorium on demonstrations until after the November elections...