Word: daleyisms
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...kilts, the Eleventh Ward Shannon Rovers began their march down the 600-ft.-long red carpet. The walls reverberated to the strains of the Garry Owen march, the favorite tune of the guest of honor, the present and almost certainly future mayor of the city of Chicago-Richard J. Daley...
Mobilized last week by Chicago's top union officials in appreciation of Mayor Daley's "service to the working people," the banquet was touted as the biggest under one roof in the chronicle of mankind.* After Daley made his way to the dais, flanked by a praetorian guard of Chicago's labor elite, dinner was served to 10,158 labor leaders, rank-and-file members and their wives and girl friends...
Sometimes Daley smiled; sometimes he looked grim. Often, to give his aching right hand a rest, he clasped hands behind his back. Finally, at 7:15 he and his escorts left the cocktail party to travel two blocks by limousine to the other side of the building for the grand entrance. As Labor Official Tom Haviland put it: "If he had walked, he would have had to shake 9,000 hands...
...soon as the mayor was settled at one of the two head tables, the guests reseated themselves before their blue-rimmed Pyrex plates. At each plate stood a campaign brochure and a Daley button. Swiftly, hundreds of yellow-jacketed waiters and waitresses began scurry ing about with groaning trays. If the steaks were not exactly sizzling, it was hardly their fault. The heated carts had to be wheeled up to three city blocks to reach one of the four service kitchens...
...host, Lee mounted the rostrum at 8:15 and started the long round of dignitary introductions. Protocol demanded that all of the 102 plenipotentiaries be introduced. The loudspeakers were almost wholly ineffective, and by the time Daley -presented as "the greatest mayor of the greatest city in the world"-stepped up to speak, nearly half the crowd had departed. Daley confined his remarks to a few innocuous platitudes about his roots in labor and job security, then exited to a standing ovation. The biggest indoor feast in history was over...