Word: aldermanic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been the best of Richard J. Daley's 19 years as mayor of Chicago. In May, Daley, 72, suffered a stroke that required an operation and more than three months' convalescence. Then three Pooh-Bahs of the Daley machine-including Hizzoner's right-hand man. Alderman Thomas Keane-were convicted in federal court of charges ranging from mail fraud to income tax evasion, bringing to a total of ten the number of powerful machine men who have been convicted. In a recent series of articles, the Chicago Tribune, in conjunction with the Better Government Association, documented shocking...
...jury in U.S. district court convicted Alderman Thomas Keane, 69, the machine's second most powerful mem ber, on 17 counts of mail fraud and one count of conspiracy in secret land deals...
Next day another federal jury convicted Alderman Paul Wigoda, 52, a machine member and Keane's law partner, on charges of evading income taxes in 1969 on a $50,000 bribe from real estate developers for pushing a zoning change through the city council. The day after that, still another federal jury convicted Daley's former press secretary, Earl Bush, 59, of eleven counts of mail fraud...
...Hofstede, 33, wanted to go to medical school, but his application was late, and so he had to take a civil service job with the state of Minnesota to make ends meet. The son of a Dutch-born truck driver, Hofstede decided to stay in government, became a Minneapolis alderman at 26. Last year he was elected mayor of Minneapolis in a startling upset over the law-and-order incumbent, Police Detective Charles Stenvig. Since taking office, he has begun an ambitious multimillion-dollar urban-renovation plan, reorganized equipment to provide better mass-transit service and placed considerable emphasis...
...Democratic Convention Singer saw Chicago Mayor Richard Daley deliver the Illinois votes without polling the delegation. "I realized then that we had to work from the bottom up to bring out a more open political process." In a stunning upset, the independent Democrat was elected alderman in a strong machine ward...