Word: daleyisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beatific Smiles. Voices in Congress grew shrill. Ohio's Senator Stephen Young thundered: "Chicago, under Mayor Daley, is a police state." Louisiana's Russell Long was as extravagant in the other direction, suggesting that the Democrats should have nominated Richard Daley instead of Hubert Humphrey. For the most part, Republicans smiled beatifically and watched the Democrats' dogfight in silence...
...battle of Chicago warrants a more honest and impartial investigation than Daley's apparat gave it or than it is likely to get from those who have already picked sides. In fact, there is some likelihood that less passionately involved authorities will eventually report what happened. The FBI, a Chicago grand jury and the President's commission on violence, formed after Robert Kennedy's assassination, are all investigating Chicago's bloody week...
...long Texas night, 43 troubled soldiers of the U.S. Army's 1st Armored Division squatted defiantly in a parking lot at Fort Hood, far out in the wasteland between Waco and Austin. They had been ordered to Chicago as part of the force massed by Mayor Richard Daley to guard the Democratic Convention from antiwar demonstrators and a feared eruption of Negro militants. The violence that later engulfed the convention was viewed with cool, apolitical disdain by Chicago's Negroes, but Daley was taking no chances. The 43 troopers were black too. And rather than risk having...
...first, Dr. Alfred Bay, superintendent of Topeka State, reacted like a Mayor Daley of psychiatry. He fired the aides, had many arrested and spoke of eradicating disorder "before it spreads to the patients." Other officials called the aides' demands preposterous -a 35% pay increase, 40-hour week, revised job specifications, union representation on administrative bodies, a two-year contract, and an in-service education program to give aides a chance for advancement...
...result of their recent appearance on TV, Chicago's police will have to work hard to erase the impression that they are a gang of undisciplined bullies. Whatever their image, though, the fact is that Mayor Daley's cops are among the most carefully screened in the nation...