Word: wagnerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mayor seemed most concerned for the city's reputation, during a World's Fair year, as a tourist attraction. Hotels had reported more than 500 reservations canceled, and Wagner, making a patently preposterous claim, said that "no single visitor to our city has been physically attacked or brutalized in any way." That was news to Max Colwell, 61, manager of the famed Pasadena Tournament of Roses, who, only five hours before, had been beaten and robbed of nearly $1,000 while visiting New York...
News to One. Returning hastily from his vacation, Mayor Robert Wagner broadcast a radio and TV appeal for calm and promised that he would do his utmost to redress legitimate grievances, but he warned that the city would not tolerate lawlessness. "Law and order," said the mayor, "are the Negro's best friend-make no mistake about that. The opposite of law and order is mob rule, and that is the way of the Ku Klux Klan, the night riders and the lynch mobs...
...fall, in rabble-rousing Jesse Gray's "rent strike." All told, Gray claimed that 4,500 tenants from 325 buildings refused to pay their rent because their landlords had failed to rout the rats, drain the swampy basements and plug the holes in the walls and ceilings. Mayor Wagner lent his support by ordering a new drive against "slumlords," but the Buildings Department, with a backlog of 250,000 complaints, is still snowed under...
...YORK CITY, July 30--Mayor Robert F. Wagner will journey to Washington this week-end to request federal aid for Harlem's negro poulation. This announcement was made today at the conclusion of the mayor's extensive talks here with the Reverend Martin Luther King...
Their final meeting, which lasted all day, ending just after eight p.m. this evening, produced no formal agreement, however. King told newsmen the talks had been "frank, fruitful, and friendly" but said there was no indication the Mayor would follow all his suggestions. Wagner will issue a statement tomorrow morning...