Word: aldermanic
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...that the state actually gave Chicago schools $48 million more this year than in 1974. Said he: "I can only conclude that in the face of the state aid increase and declining enrollment, the superintendent is crying wolf." The Governor complicated matters further by appointing William Singer, a former alderman who tried to unseat Mayor Richard Daley in last winter's Democratic primary, to head a task force investigating the school board's budget. That infuriated Daley, who has stepped in as the middleman and successfully mediated previous teachers' strikes; he has decided to remain...
Special Relationship. Along the way to renominating their man, Daley workers shattered the political fortunes of the token G.O.P. nominee for mayor, John Hoellen, 60, who was also running for re-election as the city's only Republican alderman. He was beaten, in part because the machine made a special point of turning out votes for his opponent, Eugene C. Schulter, 27, a real estate appraiser and protégé of the Democratic ward committeeman. Afterward, Hoellen considered dropping out of the race against Daley. Said the Republican: "If I can't be elected alderman...
With dogged zeal, Alderman William Singer, 34, has visited every public school and transit station and nearly every supermarket, bowling alley and bingo parlor in Chicago during his 16-month campaign to defeat five-term Mayor Richard Daley in next week's primary. At many of the stops, city employees-among them transit workers, policemen and firemen-have been sidling up to offer encouragement to the maverick Democrat. "Lotsa luck, Alderman. We're with you," are words often heard. That people who owe their jobs to Daley's political machine would even cautiously express such support...
Private Gain. Singer has benefited from a series of setbacks suffered by Hizzoner since his election. A stroke in 1974 required an operation and three months of convalescence. Seven top members of his machine, including his right-hand man Alderman Thomas Keane, have been convicted for using their offices for private gain. Questions of propriety have been raised over the mayor's secret ownership with his wife of a real estate company with assets of about $200,000. He has been criticized for influencing the placement of millions of dollars' worth of city insurance with a firm that...
...this time, Daley may have to overcome as many as four opponents in the Democratic primary in February-the first major opposition he has faced from within his own party since his first run for mayor in 1955. The strongest challenge comes from Alderman William Singer, 33, who led the delegation that was seated instead of Daley's at the 1972 Democratic Convention. Singer, brash and scrappy, has charged Daley with wholesale neglect of the city's deteriorating school system, and plans to visit all of the city's 584 public schools personally before the primary...