Word: wagnerism
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...view of some of its despairing critics, New York City is just too large and complex for any one man to govern properly-and Mayor Robert Ferdinand Wagner has certainly done much to confirm that belief during his eight fumbling, scandal-specked years in office. But Wagner is a Democrat, and New York is an overwhelmingly Democratic city. And last week, after one of the dreariest campaigns in its history, New York gave Bob Wagner 1,239,533 votes for a plurality of 402,980 over his Republican opponent, Attorney General Louis Lefkowitz. Running as an independent, City Controller Lawrence...
...spend the night at Kerr's lavish (13 bathrooms) ranch house. Next morning the President flew back to Washington, where he entertained Harry and Bess Truman overnight at the White House. Then he was off again, to New York and New Jersey. At La Guardia Airport, Mayor Robert Wagner, growing increasingly nervous about this week's election, was waiting on the apron to greet him. The President's endorsement was in a mimeographed handout, which he did not read: "I want to take this opportunity to state with the utmost conviction my wholehearted support...
...housewives, Lefkowitz argued that the city had grown filthier under Wagner than ever before: "In the time Mayor Wagner has been in office, you have probably had to wash your curtains once a month-a total of 96 times-to keep them only reasonably clean." At a home rally, Lefkowitz asked: "Would any of you dream of hiring a man for four more years when he's been a flop for eight?" Time and again, Lefkowitz accused Wagner of indifference to New York's crime rate. Cried he: "The decent people of this community are sick and tired...
...York City, with its 3-to-1 Democratic registration, Lefkowitz remained an underdog against Wagner. But his campaign got a boost from the New York Times* which, having backed Wagner in the Democratic primary in September, now found that "Lefkowitz offers the prospect of something better than Wagner, maybe much better-a possibility of great improvements against the near certainty of continued mediocrity...
...Other endorsements so far: the Herald Tribune for Lefkowitz, the Post for Wagner...