Word: clouts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Daley's Chicago worked for the party faithful, for the guy who could call his "clout" to get his alley fixed or his brother a job with the Park District. But it didn't work so well for the guy who voted against the Machine and couldn't get his alley fixed, or the voter who didn't want to support feather-bedding in city government, or the store owner who receives a surprise visit from the building inspector after an anti-administration poster appeared in his window, or the tavern owners forced to pay extortion fees to corrupt policemen...
...Losing Clout. Blacks exploded at the choice. "We will no longer be taken for granted," stormed Democratic Congressman Ralph Metcalfe. Polish Americans also objected, thus raising the specter of a black-Polish alliance against the ruling Irish-who stand to lose considerable clout now that their most powerful patron is gone. The fact is that even though Daley always mounted impressive parades and dyed the usually opaque Chicago River a bright green for St. Patrick's Day, the Irish account for only 5% of Chicago's 3.1 million people. Fully 39% of Chicagoans are black, 12% Hispanic...
...indestructible that nobody was prepared for his departure. Some 15 candidates are already scrambling to replace him. A special election will be held within six months, and in the meantime, an acting mayor will be selected by the city council. Daley's successor will not have comparable clout since he will undoubtedly be denied the top party job that Daley held. Says Political Scientist Milton Rakove of the University of Illinois' Circle Campus: "The politburo takes over now. They won't let anyone have that kind of power again." For better or worse, Richard Daley was probably...
...biggest effort will be to rejuvenate his broad-based, pro-American, free-enterprise party, which has governed Japan continuously since 1955. As a first step toward a comeback, Fukuda intends to name a committee to study party reform. One problem it will surely discuss is how to curb the clout of the half-dozen major factions-led by aging, godfather-like powerbrokers-that have traditionally controlled the L.D.P. Fukuda has promised to dissolve his own 78-man bloc as an example to others. Yet his first appointments to top party and Cabinet posts last week seemed carefully deferential to factional...
...were exhausted before the present version was put together under-or perhaps around-Director Frank Pierson (The Looking Glass War). Yet, what the serious quarterlies call "the authorship" of A Star Is Born is unclear. Responsibility must surely rest with Streisand and Peters, who kept hold of the creative clout...