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Before New York City voters went to the polls to elect a mayor, there was little doubt about the outcome (TIME, Nov. 2). Tammanyite Lawyer Robert F. Wagner Jr., 43, president of the Borough of Manhattan and son of the late U.S. Senator Robert F. Wagner (sponsor of the Wagner labor act), was a sure winner...
...Wagner's election was hailed by the New deal wing of the Democratic party as a bright omen for next year's congressional elections and the 1956 presidential campaign...
Robert F. Wagner, Jr. was elected Mayor of New York in the biggest Democratic city-wide landslide in eight years. He won with expected ease, piling up a margin of almost 2 to 1 over his nearest rival, Republican Harold Riegelman, in four of the five boroughs. They split evenly in the fifth. Liberal Party candidate Rudolph Halley, with 370,000 votes, was third behind Riegelman's 527,000 and Wagner...
Although this was technically a victory for the Wagner forces, who engineered the court fight over the signatures, the Wagnerites seemed almost as glum as Impy when it was all over. The move, they feared, on second thought, might just help Republican Candidate Harold Riegelman instead of damaging the Liberal Party's hornrimmed hoot owl, ex-Kefauver Committee Counsel Rudolph Halley. And the Wagnerites had cause to be embarrassed on another count: after crying that a mysterious, top-level Republican Mr. X had attempted to get Big-Time Racketeer Joey Fay out of prison (a charge calculated to embarrass...
...confer with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles over the problem of U.S. policy toward Israel-a matter with some bearing on New York City's Jewish vote. The New York Daily News poll, hastily rejiggered to compensate for Impy's absence from the languid battle, showed Wagner ahead, 2 t01, nine days before election. But if the whole campaign had been conceived to drive the voters away from the polls, it could hardly have succeeded-or so it seemed at week's end-more brilliantly...