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Digging further, Roberts managed to spade up a list of the Chicago Downs stockholders. Among them was many a newsworthy name: Ex-Sun Managing Editor James Mulroy,** now executive assistant to Governor Adlai Stevenson; the wife of House Minority Leader Paul Powell, who was speaker of the 1949 legislature that passed the race-track bill; Democratic Ward Boss Tom Nash, and a covey of lesser politicians...
...daylight, Sheriff Babb put through a call to Governor Adlai Stevenson, who called out five companies of National Guardsmen. Most of the day was spent in making preparations for the night. Vans, trucks and private cars shuttled back & forth, trying to save the belongings of tenants. One tenant, a retired Chicago cop, said, as he helped with the moving, "I saw a lot of things as a policeman but never anything like that. These people are savages...
...clock one bitter cold morning in Chicago last week, a deafening din arose from the Illinois Central Railroad's yards. Whistles shrieked, bells clanged, diesel engines blatted their air horns like dying cows. From a smoke-grimed overpass, Illinois' Governor Adlai E. Stevenson, who had set off the bedlam by tugging the rope of an old dismantled locomotive bell, cried gleefully: "There are a hundred trains here, and I bet every one of them is late!" Just as gleefully, Illinois Central's President Wayne Johnston cried back: "I'll bet they...
...would now be boss in Chicago? The machine professionals wanted a benign-looking, dependable party wheelhorse named Joe Gill. Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas, chief federal patronage dispenser since Scott Lucas' defeat, wanted energetic young County Clerk Richard Daley, who also had the backing of Governor Adlai Stevenson. That equivocating enigma, Chicago's Mayor Martin Kennelly, wanting to get re-elected in April, and needing the old guard's machine support, took a position in between. Result: a compromise, with Gill as interim chairman until the mayoralty election, and Daley as vice chairman. The solution merely postponed...
...week's end there was another thin but significant straw in the wind. Questioned on a press report that "a close adviser to President Truman" was predicting Johnson's resignation, White House Press Secretary Charles Ross issued a perfunctory "no comment." Asked if Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson would replace Acheson, he snapped a vigorous denial that left no doubt of the President's continuing confidence in his present Secretary of State...