Word: aldermanic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Flies in University Alderman Election...
When Washington, the first Black Mayor of Chicago, first won the nomination of the party five years ago, Vrdolyak, who was a chief alderman, embarked on a political battle with his party colleague. Vrdolyak, the son of a Lithuanian saloon keeper, refused to share power on equal terms with the Blacks in the city...
...sobriquet Boss. But Novelist Morris Renek knows that the bulbous, corrupt Tammany Hall leader was not merely a caricaturist's dream. He was an authentic 19th century figure with plans and desires -- not all of them villainous. Bread and Circus imagines Tweed in his salad days, graduating from modest alderman to urban caliph. The campaigner swiftly learns to deny himself nothing, devouring vast meals, acquiring power at the expense of the citizenry, puffing like a beached whale as he sports in the percales with a period piece named Augusta Cordell, estrous wife of a society figure. Renek never whitewashes...
...Washington with more enthusiasm than tune. He had good reason to sing: the elated mayor was celebrating his re-election and emergence as Chicago's most dominant political figure since the late Mayor Richard J. Daley. Washington took 53.5% of the vote last week to trounce his archenemy, former Alderman Edward Vrdolyak (42.2%), and Republican Donald Haider (4.3%). Cook County Assessor Thomas C. Hynes withdrew from the race 36 hours before the polls opened...
...mayoral race amounts to a demolition derby. After winning February's Democratic primary, black Mayor Harold Washington has been challenged by two white opponents from his own party for the April 7 election, although both are running under minor-party labels. Yet Cook County Tax Assessor Thomas Hynes and Alderman Edward Vrdolyak are spending most of their time attacking each other...