Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...helped direct the late Mayor's infamous infiltration of dissident groups. When Daley was alive, she was a terror; her acid-tongued remarks stung any who didn't toe the party line. When Daley died, Byrne, who had made few friends in the Machine aside from the boss, lost it all. Bilandic finally fired her as sales commissioner after she made a desperate publicity-grab by accusing him of "greasing the skids" for a taxi fare increase, an as-yet unsubstantiated charge...
...election will mean only the end of the machine's invulnerability, not of its influence in Chicago politics. The city is set up on a weak-mayor, strong-city council system, which with a non-machine mayor suggests a return to the feudal, pre-Daley years when free-wheeling bosses ran wild, getting their hands into more cookie jars than modern-day Chicagoans can imagine even exist. Some of the more wily power-brokers might ally with Byrne and try to co-opt her. In any case, the people of Chicago will face four years of back-stabbing and bickering...
...last night. Last night there occurred, before a raucous sell-out crowd at Lynah Rink in Ithaca, N.Y., The Blowout. Cornell scored three quick goals within two minutes just to show the Crimson who was boss and who would experience the ECAC play-offs vicariously, then added five more in the opening stanza on the way to a leisurely 11-3 rout...
Back in the early 70's, the American Shipbuilding Company, Steinbrenner's vocation, had some problems with the government. A longtime contributor to the Democratic Party, Steinbrenner knew about political finance, so when Herbert Kalmbach asked for a little help for his boss, the meaning was clear. So Steinbrenner generously opened his wallet for Richard Nixon in 1972. Illegally. And he got caught...
...bribes. A lobbyist, three businessmen and a rabbi told of paying off Flood to arrange federal grants and contracts. Stephen Elko, Flood's onetime top aide who is now serving a two-year sentence for taking bribes from some of the same people, quoted his old boss as saying, "This is a business. Get all you can while you can get it." Meanwhile, the 16-term Congressman, known for his rococo oratory and baroque waxed mustache, declined to take the stand in Washington, D.C.'s federal district court or, in fact, to say anything...