Word: daleyisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley has bitterly declared that he will brook no trouble from would-be demonstrators when the Democratic Convention gets underway in August. "I think the great mass of American people has had enough of those who carry Viet Cong flags in the streets of this country, and are getting fed up with the cry of police brutality," he told his wildly applauding City Council...
...going to take over the city," stormed Daley. "They won't take over the convention or any street. If it is necessary to put on 5,000 more policemen, I'll ask for authority." He may have...
...area, and delegates will have to commute from the Loop via a single expressway or the back streets of the ghetto. The city's mammoth lakefront exhibition hall--closer to downtown, isolated from residential ears, and far easier to defend--was gutted by fire a year ago, but Daley's clout and assurance of peace brought the party to Chicago anyway...
Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley took the opposite tack, calling for passage of stricter state and federal gun-control laws because "there are too many people walking around with guns. We cannot have rule by gun law in our streets." Daley told the city council that he would ask for as many more police as he thought necessary. He used the obviously exaggerated figure of 5,000 more police, and-while the council responded with cheers and a standing ovation -one of its leaders said that they would approve any addition, "7,000 or 70,000." The council...
Also upsetting was the threat by Negro Comedian Dick Gregory to somehow block the Democratic National Convention unless the city acceded to such demands as appointing a Negro to the "top echelon of the police department." Vowed Daley: "No one will take over a single street or a political convention, now or next summer...