Word: cermak
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cermak Memorial Hospital, a 111-bed facility serving the Cook County correctional system in Illinois, a prisoner with a policeman's bullet in his buttock waited three hours for treatment...
State prisons are little better. Alabama's correctional system, which has 7,000 inmates, currently has only one doctor. Chicago's Cermak Memorial, which lost its hospital accreditation this month, depends almost entirely on part-time physicians. Even federal prisons, which tend to be better run and better financed, are short staffed. Three of the four doctors at the federal prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., which has 2,100 inmates, plan to leave at the end of the month. Many prisons must rely on untrained inmates to screen patients or perform medical services. In Alabama, unsupervised prisoners have...
Otto Kerner was different-or so it seemed. Once known as "the Mr. Clean of Illinois," a man of suave courtliness, a leader of the Boy Scouts and the Red Cross, he had gone to good schools (Brown, Cambridge, Northwestern Law), and married the daughter of former Mayor Anton Cermak. Kerner's father who had worked himself up from poverty to the federal bench, beamed with pride as he swore in his son as a US attorney. Mayor Richard Daley then recruited Kerner as a blue-ribbon candidate to run for Governor in 1960 against William Stratton, whose administration...
...South Side win such fervor that he became known as 'The Second Lincoln,' and so many Negroes to jobs that his opponents referred to City Hall as 'Uncle Tom's ," had been defeated by a , who had displayed a hostile to the black vote. Having won without blacks, Cermak was under no obligation to the back ward machine and freely divested it of whatever sources of patronage Thompson had given...
...DePriest, seeking a third term in Congress, was defeated by a black Republican turned Democrat, Arthur W. Mitchell. The defeat marked the end of DePriest's political career. The year before Mayor Cermak had been assassinated in Florida by a bullet aimed at President Roosevelt, and Cermak was succeeded by Edward J. Kelly. As Mayor, Kelly made an even more intensive effort than Big Bill Thompson had to woo Chicago's ever-increasing black vote. Reading the handwriting on the wall, William Dawson, who after DePriest's defeat was the leading black Republican in the city, switched parties...