Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Officially, city hall was closed in mourning for Chicago's late mayor, Richard Daley. Yet even before "the Boss" was buried, aldermen darted from one smoke-filled room to another, trying to work out a deal that would placate the city's clamorous ethnic groups. Proceedings were briefly interrupted by a memorial service, then quickly resumed. Daley would have appreciated the rough-and-tumble- and the fact that the Windy City's politicians were having such trouble slicing up the political pie left by the master chef...
Carter's tenacity is extraordinary. Apparently defeated in his first try for the state senate in 1962, he fought to prove ballot stuffing by the boss of Quitman County, Joe Hurst. Governor-elect Carl
...suspicion of the "vested interests." After Carter won his case in court, John Pope?one of his biggest supporters in the fight?tried to get his help to land some state insurance business. Pope recalls, "Jimmy told me in the politest possible way to get lost." Carter helped send Boss Hurst to jail on a moonshining charge, and settling another personal score, defeated Sanders for the governorship in 1970 after a particularly bitter campaign...
Died. Richard J. Daley, 74, boss of Chicago and a Democratic powerbroker for 22 years; of a heart attack; in Chicago (see THE NATION...
...clear what economic actions he will take. Carter has begun surrounding himself with people who are expected to follow moderately stimulative fiscal policies. Last week he named Michael Blumenthal, chief executive of Bendix Corp., to be Treasury Secretary, and Charles Schultze, once Lyndon Johnson's budget boss, to head the Council of Economic Advisers (see THE NATION...