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...JOHN P. DALEY...
...Democratic state central committee of Illinois met in Springfield one day last week to perform an embarrassing chore. Their problem, as Chicago Mayor Richard Daley put it, was to choose in "open and free balloting" a substitute for Cook County Treasurer Herbert C. Paschen, who stepped out of the race for governor two weeks ago, after disclosures that a $29,000 employees' "welfare fund" administered by his office had been used for political purposes (TIME, Sept...
...customary open and free fashion, the committee's decision had been determined in advance. The day before, after checking with Adlai Stevenson, Dick Daley had huddled with his lieutenants at Chicago's Palmer House to scan a list of some 20 hopefuls-among them Steve Mitchell, Stevenson's old aide and former Democratic national chairman. After three hours Daley & Co. brought out of the hat a name from among the "also mentioned"-Chicago Superior Judge Richard B. Austin. Quickly the word was telephoned to the Cook County delegation, which controls the committee by a 13-12 vote...
...Dick Daley, Candidate Austin had obvious merits to outweigh the fact that outside of Chicago he is practically unknown ("Who is he?" asked a dismayed downstate delegate when the word first got to Springfield). Richard Bevan Austin. 55, is an Episcopalian and will add diversity to a ticket on which there are already four Catholics. He has few enemies in the party, and his personal life-as family man (three sons), Chicago attorney (since 1926), assistant state's attorney (16 years) and judge (since 1953)-has been impeccable...
...building on time, or what he would do about the planes that cross the area at considerably less than 5,600 ft. "If you're going to have centralization," Wright said, "why not have it!" Told that Chicago's Mayor Richard J. Daley had been cautiously noncommittal about the proposition, Wright asked: "Who's Daley? He couldn't be very bright if he's mayor of Chicago...