Word: daleyisms
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...honor Mayor Daley for keeping Chicago free of riot and anarchy. It was better for those who live here that every dissident in sight got clubbed than that our city should have surrendered to them in the name of freedom of speech...
...Daley may have the support of some elements in Chicago, but there are those who cannot forget his "shoot to kill" order, the problem of police harassment in black neighborhoods, and the incidents in April, when the police broke up an orderly peace demonstration and many people were Maced and clubbed, including newsmen and bystanders. There seems to be a pattern here that, unfortunately for the mayor, cannot entirely be blamed on "outside agitators...
Artful Whitewash. Public opinion, nonetheless, continued overwhelmingly to support Hoover's view, which in turn reflected precisely the thoughts of Chi cago Mayor Richard Daley. The Mayor last week kept up his own counterbarrage to the "distortions" of the news media by broadcasting an hour-long documentary over 150 television sta tions throughout...
Entitled "What Trees Do They Plant?" (meaning: "What constructive plans do protesters propose for the society of the future?"), the Daley defense was produced by Henry Ushijima, a California-born filmmaker who for five years has been paid by Chicago to turn out short documentaries celebrating the city. Actually, "Trees" was a surprisingly artful whitewash. In his handling of English, Daley is the Casey Stengel of American politics; he was wise enough to limit his physical participation in the film to two brief appearances. Ushijima waded through miles of television footage made during the convention week and spliced to gether...
...like Allard K. Lowenstein, the New Yorker who founded the Dump Johnson campaign and put together a McCarthy-dominated Coalition for an Open Convention last summer with some Kennedy support, Julian Bond of Georgia, and Donald O. Peterson, the Wisconsin delegation chairman who refused to buckle under to Mayor Daley...