Word: wagnerism
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...York's Mayor Robert Wagner, after making sounds like a candidate for months, has firmly bowed out of the running, but the failure of anyone to take his place may yet find the Kennedy Administration pressuring him to change his mind. After Wagner's demurrer, the list of Democratic possibilities who wanted no part of Rocky suffered a sudden boom...
...theater organists, who rose from cornetist in a Seattle orphanage to the gilded consoles of the movie palaces' mightiest Wurlitzers without formal keyboard training, earned as much as $150,000 a year as the brilliantined virtuoso of the treacle-to-thunder style he called "the violets and Wagner stuff"; of a heart attack; in Sherman Oaks, Calif...
...Bronx, sat in the guest of honor's seat at a $100-a-plate dinner in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. He was immensely pleased-for despite the fact that he is involved in a bitter political battle with New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner, he heard praise heaped about his head from the top Democrats in the land. Chortled Charlie after it was all over: "Never before in the history of Bronx County have we had such a successful dinner...
...want something in New York, I know where to go. I go to Charlie Buckley, Gene Keogh or Joe Sharkey,* and I get it." Such loyalty is a quality Kennedy, too, can appreciate-and reciprocate. And Buckley came to have need of Kennedy's help. Last year Mayor Wagner, whom Buckley helped get elected mayor initially in 1953, fell out with New York's borough bosses, including Buckley. Re-elected to a third term, Wagner vowed to oust Buckley both from the House seat and his Bronx bossdom...
...Sharkey, who had bossed the Brooklyn organization, was dislodged by Wagner. Keogh is a Brooklyn Congressman whose name has been frequently mentioned by witnesses in the current bribery trial of his brother, J. Vincent Keogh, a New York Supreme Court judge...