Word: daleyisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...policemen went out of control that night, the deputy superintendent in charge had to pull berserk officers off battered and bruised demonstrators, shouting at them: "Stop, damn it, stop! For Christ's sake, stop it!" The report confirms the earlier impression that the Chicago police force-in Mayor Daley's celebrated euphemism-"overreacted." But it also stresses the provocations they suffered and records some examples of police restraint...
...issue's visual problems are much easier to pinpoint than the literary ones. The drawings of David McClelland and James Rivaldo are gone, and they are a sore loss. Sam Vandam's caricature of Mayor Daley is properly Sorel-like, and his cartoons pop up throughout the issue, but it will be a while before he can match the bizarre beasties that crawled over McClelland's pages...
...reported that Democratic precinct workers were rounding up derelicts from the streets and paying them 500 each to register, even though they had not been in Chicago long enough to satisfy the residence requirement. Nevertheless, the 1968 elections apparently fell short of previous years when it came to dilly-Daleying. "This was the cleanest election we've had in Chicago in at least 20 years," said Charles Barr, head of a group of 5,000 Republicans who policed the polls. In response, Mayor Daley suggested-not without cause-that reporters should investigate why, in the era of the voting...
...Daley, who this week received a membership scroll signed by Gov. John A. Volpe and Secretary of State John F. X. Davoren, is thus entitled...
CHICAGO--The Order of Paul Revere Patriots has welcomed its newest member--Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley--who can now enjoy privileges denied to lesser citizens of the Commonwealth...