Word: wagnerism
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With all of New York State's politicos in an uproar about labor racketeering and shakedown at harness-racing tracks (TIME, Oct. 5-12), it was a foregone conclusion that the issue would be dragged into the New York City mayoralty campaign. Last week Robert Wagner Jr., the Democratic candidate for mayor, grabbed the scandal and tried to throw it all the way to Washington...
This leaves the two candidates who have the proper social purpose to be mayor of New York City: Rudolph Halley and Robert F. Wagner, Jr. Halley is a Johnny-come-lately to the public service, while Wagner has been in public life for sixteen years. Halley flashed to eminence in the Kefauver hearings. Wagner has built his reputation brick by brick. Halley has held one office, President of the City Council, in which he voted on crucial issues with a fickleness that raises doubts as to his sincerity. Wagner has been State Assemblyman, head of the New York Planning Commission...
...just best comparatively. In his years of public service, he has joined in the group life of all the racial, religious and economic elements of the city. It is hard to find a man who knows New York better than Robert F. Wagner. And he will have the advice and support of that liberal element of the Democratic party, led by men like Averell Harriman and Herbert Lehman, which best expresses the social aspirations of what is admittedly a "Fair Deal town...
...said against Wagner that he has the support of Tammany Hall and all the low associations that go with it. Those who charge this forget that sixteen Tammany district leaders, including those associated with Frank Costello, broke with Wagner to support Impelliteri for mayor. Wagner owes them nothing. It is also said that Wagner wants to use the mayorship not for the welfare of New York but as a stepping stone to his late father's seat in the United States Senate. Those who claim this forget that the mayor is so controversial and unthanked a figure...
...York city politics is a roughhouse game. Until they die and often after, bad things are said about all politicians. It is almost enough that in this maelstrom, Robert F. Wagner has accomplished as much as he has. For his record, his program and his person, compared with the others or judged absolutely, we endorse Robert F. Wagner for the mayoralty of New York...