Word: daleyisms
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...newspapers litter the floor. In the back are tables lined with telephones; in the front is a press area with files and photographs of Lowenstein and his family. The ceiling looks like it leaks. A poster on the wall shows Humphrey saying, "Let's Stop Pretending that Mayor Daley Did Anything Wrong in Chicago." There are no HHH buttons in sight...
Everett Dirksen ignored the Cook County vote to embrace downstate Republicanism and victory over challenger William Clark, a man who committed political suicide when he broke with Mayor Daley over the conduct of the Democratic Convention in Chicago...
...Vermont, a conservative Republican candidate, insurance company board chairman Deane C. Davis returned Vermont to its traditional Republican owners by defeating Democratic Lt. Gov. John J. Daley. In Vermont, as in New Hampshire the State House had been left vacant by popular Democratic governors who decided not to run again...
...Mayor Daley's head on a platter. Iowa University Sculptor Hans Breder, who makes delicate, dicelike constructions, had one of his students blast holes in a pair with a rifle, then put the violated work in a glass case and presented it as his offering...
Barnett Newman created a "Lace Cur tain for Mayor Daley" made of the barbed wire used for police barricades in August and spattered with red paint. Robert Motherwell decided to send two already completed abstract expressionist canvases. "The significance is to participate," he said. "This show represents the politics of feeling, not the politics of ideology." Sculptor Robert Morris settled for a telegram. His suggestion: redo the Chicago fire...