Word: daleyisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mayor Daley, master of the paraphrase, who also said, "Progress is our most impotent project...
...named Allard Lowenstein was meticulously organizing a network of students to a force that would decisively help unseat the President and carve a niche in history for Eugene McCarthy. In cities a continent apart, two maimed minds were moving nearer their appointments with infamy. And in Chicago, Mayor Richard Daley was making himself a target for protest by ordering his police, eleven days after Martin Luther King's assassination, to "shoot to kill" arsonists in time of riot...
Only one American politician could have said it: Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley, who committed that memorable malapropism while defending police misconduct during last year's Democratic Convention. Taking a leaf from Chairman Mao, Pocket Books has published Quotations from Mayor Daley-a bouquet of bluster, sanctimony and lost battles with the English language. Excerpts...
...Republican denunciations of a 1960 police scandal: "Just say Daley laughed...
...Daley image: "I'm not better than anybody else. I don't want to look like a fellow who tells other people what...