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...TIME has obtained support for these charges, and more, from a far more reliable source: long-secret files of the Internal Revenue Service. In some 500 pages of reports to their superiors from 1972 to 1974, veteran IRS Agents John Daley and Gabriel Dennis of the service's Los Angeles office asserted...
...both men have published major novels. Kennedy's crept in like Chicago fog; Greeley's was announced with a Mayor Daley-style fanfare: a $75,000 promotion budget that included a cassette of Greeley explaining his work. The quality of the two novels varies in inverse proportion to their publicity...
...just as revealing. A tax-cut for the working man, especially if his line of work involves owning oil companies, the Democratic "alternative" was no such thing, crammed with business breaks designed to gain the support of Southern Democrats and skewed to the laboring classes just enough that Daley machine veteran Dan Rostenkowski could mouth some ancient pieties...
...describes herself as a protege of Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley, and she learned his ruthless style well enough to qualify as probably the toughest woman in American politics -"Attila the Hen," enemies call her. But Jane Byrne is a different sort of mayor. Daley gave Chicago two decades of predictability. Byrne has given Chicago two years of ceaseless, sometimes wacky, surprise. Daley believed in saying little, honoring promises, maintaining grudges. Byrne snaps out her feelings and shifts alliances without warning. Byrne has a whim of iron: in just two years she ran through four police chiefs, three planning directors...
Chicago's economy-like the nation's-is in a slump, and Byrne can do little to ease it. Moreover, she cannot get the state legislature to say yes to almost any desire, as her late mentor could, and there is a residual hostility from remnants of Daley's political machine. Most worrisome of all, Byrne has a ready, if unannounced, opponent in the 1983 election: Cook County State's Attorney Richard M. Daley, 39, son of the founder of the very political empire to which Jane Byrne has laid claim...