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Despite the rain trickling down from a train trestle overhead, some 200 people last week gathered around a sound truck on a Bronx street to hear New York City's Democratic Mayor Robert Wagner plead for reelection. Smiling painfully, Wagner shook a few hands, then launched into a pallid denunciation of New York's Democratic machine bosses. The audience response, at best, was mixed. An enthusiastic urchin yelled: "Yay for Wag'ner baby!" A tenement dweller shouted down from his window: "Get outa here, yah bum!" In the crowd, a heckler chanted a bitter litany: "New York...
...Robert Wagner, Democrat-Liberal, was elected mayor in 1953 and re-elected in 1957, both times under the sponsorship of the Democratic organization bosses he is now attacking. His first term was plodding; his second has been studded with proliferating scandals: inadequate or nonexistent school maintenance, graft in the real estate bureau, profiteering in slum-clearance projects, conflict of interest in the city council, extortion in the police department, bribe taking in the controller's office and by inspectors of departments that supervise buildings, markets, water supply, gas and electricity. Trying to hold onto the support of reform Democrats...
...Board of Education of the nation's largest and sickest school system last week was awash in a mire of corruption and politics. New York's Democratic Mayor Robert F. Wagner, running for reelection, needed a show of indignant action to drown out the crescendo of scandals in school construction that took place under the nine-man board (which he appointed). He set about dumping the board, and five agreed to go. Governor Nelson Rockefeller, aroused by the school mess (and bucking for Wagner's Republican opponent, State Attorney General Louis J. Lefkowitz), called on the legislature...
...board as impotent as New York's in the face of corruption, stagnation and inefficiency deserved to be fired. Investigators charged board employees with taking bribes from contractors to the tune of at least $1,000,000 a year. The chief of construction, a crony of Mayor Wagner's, was suspended. School Superintendent John J. Theobald himself was grilled (but not criminally charged) for using vocational high school students to build him a boat. But New York City's real problem lay in the anatomy of the system, the "overadministration" that afflicts big-city schools across...
...grandstand play," snorted Candidate Wagner, who countered by summoning his own advisory council, headed by Ford Foundation President Heald. The council criticized Allen's "caretaker"' plan as inefficient, but also urged the expulsion of Silver & Co. The mayor happily agreed. Then, concerned about charges of state interference in city affairs. Rockefeller toned down Allen's proposal to make reorganization of the board's functions its key item...