Word: weinbergs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harry Weinberg, 53, is an up-from-the-slums entrepreneur who has made a fortune by buying faltering city bus lines and then paring payrolls, slashing services, and raising some fares. Robert Ferdinand Wagner, 52, the mayor of New York with ambitions for higher office, is a consummate politician who wants to stay on the safe side with bus riders and labor unions. Last week these two determined men collided on the streets of New York, snarling public transit from the Bowery to The Bronx. The nation's biggest metropolitan bus line was stalled by a strike...
Whipsaw. The trouble began when Weinberg set his sights on the Fifth Avenue Coach Line, whose routes lace Manhattan and suburban Westchester County. With the shrewd counsel of Lawyer Roy M. Cohn, 35, the boy Torquemada of the McCarthy era, Weinberg and friends bought up 23% of Fifth Avenue's stock for $3,500,000, put Weinberg in the driver's seat. Straightway, he began to complain that the company was barreling toward bankruptcy, demanded a fare boost from 15? to 20? to save it. Mayor Wagner, who had promised to hold fares down, would tolerate none...
There is no end in sight for the strike: Mr. Weinberg is not any more agreeable at the bargaining table than anywhere else. But the "go-slow" stand Governor Rockefeller and State Senate leader Walter J. Mahoney (R.) have taken on the legislation Mayor Wagner has requested can and should be rapidly reversed. Yet the pontifical Mr. Mahoney stated yesterday, "I will not be a party to any hastily contrived and poorly disguised effort by Mayor Wagner to sacrifice the passengers and the employees of the Fifth Avenue Coach Lines in preparation for a 20-cent fare...
...Weinberg has no real support even among these men; he offends everyone he talks to. In any event, the fare-rise is not the crucial problem, as noted. So Mr. Mahoney, with a crudity no one outside Albany could possibly imitate, is simply trying to make political hay out of the discomfiture of about one million New Yorkers. One hopes, after Tammany's defeat, that the Mayor will prove able to foster that political renaissance the city so desperately needs; but it will not be matched upstate for a while. The present struggle will be just another chapter...
...things were expected of Governor Rockefeller when he was elected. He has his problems, and he hasn't been able to produce all one hoped for. But he ought now to step on Mr. Mahoney and give Mayor Wagner the power to take the Line away from Weinberg. For Weinberg's history in other cities where he has taken power does not suggest a happy future for New York's bus lines: in Dallas, for example, he carried through the measures he has so far only threatened for New York. The results have not been good. In New York they...