Word: wagnerism
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...chooses will face the voters when their terms run out, but they can expect the bipartisan support now given to most Philadelphia judges. By specifying that the nominating commission is to list three names for each vacancy, Scranton should avoid the unhappy quandary of New York's Mayor Wagner, who set up a similar committee two years ago, but is now quarreling bitterly with his own group because it will not give him what he considers a long enough list of candidates. As a result, despite New York City's crowded courts, 13 judgeships...
...call the strike (it was led by typographers), and thus had no right to authorize strike benefits for idled Guildsmen-or to make him help support them with deductions from his paycheck. - Even though current contracts do not expire until March 1965, New York's Mayor Robert Wagner exhorted both publishers and union leaders to get together next week in an effort to avert another disastrous strike. The mayor's impatience was understandable. He has been vainly seeking to arrange just such a peace parley ever since the strike ended last March...
...Yorker mentions the name Wagner to a bartender, all he is likely to get is a growl. But if a citizen of the French city of Dijon mentions the name of his mayor to a waiter in a bistro, he gets an aperitif made of three-fourths dry white wine, one-fourth Crème de Cassis. The kir is Dijon's tribute to the Rev. Félix Kir, the improbable Roman Catholic priest who is mayor of this city...
...Corner, providing broadcasting facilities for almost anyone who wants to express any point of view. Graphic sexology and earnest Communism often reach the air through Pacifica stations, plus smatterings of scatology and black magic, not to mention any number of broadcasts of the plays of Shakespeare, the works of Wagner, and the theological sentiments of people like George Herbert and John Donne...
Lyndon Baines Johnson does not do things by halves, and Susan Wagner, 53, wife of New York's mayor, found it out first hand. In St. Luke's Hospital for a checkup, she was the pleased recipient of a surprise getwellogram. "When I learned you were in the hospital, I thought about the many long hours you spent in being hospitable to me and mine in 1960," wrote L.B.J. in horizon-to-horizon Texas style. "I realize I was one of those who probably contributed to asking you to do too much. Lady Bird joins me in praying...