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...undoing of the Daley machine. Among Thompson's many achievements: the indictments of 61 Chicago policemen-of whom 38, including two district commanders, have been convicted-for shaking down Chicago businessmen, mostly tavern owners; the indictments and convictions of 18 employees in the office of County Assessor P.J. Cullerton for giving tax breaks to major Democratic Party contributors; lawsuits to open up the Irish-dominated fire department to minority hiring and promotion; and the indictment of the mayor's former director of public relations, Earl Bush, on charges of mail fraud in connection with his secret ownership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: Daley Diminished | 5/27/1974 | See Source »

...temptations to favoritism and bribery are great. In Seattle and three of California's largest counties six years ago, assessors were caught taking bribes from tax consultants to lower their appraisals on property owned by national companies. In Chicago last fall. Cook County Assessor P.J. Cullerton and several subordinates were accused of giving assessment breaks to the politically friendly owners of several industrial and commercial properties. The upshot was a $9,000,000 rise in the valuations for eleven buildings, which will yield the city and county $1,000,000 a year more in taxes unless the owners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Trying to Change an Unfair Tax | 5/3/1971 | See Source »

...Truck stops at 2020 West Cullerton. One man apparently siphons gas from truck into gas can and puts it in another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CITIES: Let There Be Light | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

Harvard argued the affirmative side of the evening's issue while Burton Amil and John Cullerton took the negative for the Madison, New Jersey, college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Debaters Renew Competition with Defeat of Drew | 2/10/1949 | See Source »

Drew countered that inefficiency in education administration in the states accounts for much of the inadequacy. Amil and Cullerton suggested that a rezoning of school districts, aimed at a consolidation of educational facilities in sparsely settled areas, might solve the schooling problem without federal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Debaters Renew Competition with Defeat of Drew | 2/10/1949 | See Source »

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