Word: daleyisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...addition to the psychiatric tests for police [Sept. 13], may I also suggest psychiatric and personality tests for some of our elected officials. First on the list would be Chicago's colorful Mayor Daley...
EVEN Boss Daley's tactics of persuasion are tame next to the coervice pressures the military junta is exercising over the people of Greece...
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley has been asked to appear at the hearings, but he has not yet sent a reply to the committee's request...
...Helena is "an affliction," the Mayor Daley of the piece when it's presented fast and hard. She is the agent of the straight world, an actress and an emotional dilettante, prying with indecent interest into the Porter's peculiar menage and even playing a part or two in it. Osborne has written the role with a number of spendidly tinny or stilted lines ("Darling, why didn't you come to me?" "It won't be very pleasant, but I've made up my mind...") and Janet Sarno delivers them as though they are distantly remembered formulations from...
Unwitting Ally. After Daley's television apologia, Illinois State Treasurer Adlai Stevenson III came forth with one of the most balanced and accurate assessments of the confrontation. He did so at some risk to his political career, since any Democratic politician in the state defies Daley at his own peril. Said Stevenson: "In the Democratic convention, there was dissent and in it new hope for real change. But in Chicago, and in the Democratic party of Illinois that week, there was little room for dissent. Some 'revolutionaries' appeared on the scene, bent on provoking disorder, unwashed...