Word: daleyisms
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RICHARD M. DALEY Mayor of Chicago...
...Robert Reich, a former Harvard professor, has been commuting from his home in Boston for months. Secretary of Transportation Federico Pena earned demerits for going to bat for ValuJet in the days immediately after its passenger jet crashed in the Everglades, but might stay in the job if Bill Daley, brother of Chicago mayor Richard Daley, doesn't get it. The White House reportedly would like to get rid of Janet Reno, but the highly popular attorney general would be difficult to fire. In addition, Robert Rubin at Treasury and CIA Director John Deutch may be shuffled into new jobs...
...Alderman Richard Mell, this 39-year-old challenger has an advantage that age and experience don't give: a line to Mayor Richard Daley and the Democratic "machine," still a force in Windy City politics. Family ties may have played a role in Blagojevich's primary victory, but the former prosecutor, who talks tough on crime, should also get a boost from the national Democratic Party, which declared Republican incumbent Michael Flanagan "extremely vulnerable...
...Daley machine built the Resting Place of All Concrete--McCormick Place, world's largest convention center, out on the lake in the late '50s. It was forever in construction, and one would have thought, on its completion, that everyone's nephew had bought his boat; but lo, it opened, was inaugurated, burnt to the ground, and the construction began again, and great was the joy of the marine sales community...
...Gutkoska, whose print shop is across the street from the Chicago Police Eighth District Station. "The cops that see it know it's a joke." The department's official take on the shirt is offhand disdain. Some police say the word has come down from Mayor Richard M. Daley that wearing or selling the T shirt could lead to disciplinary action (a police spokesman denies the threat). 'When asked about it by a local TV reporter earlier this summer, Daley muttered, "It's just some guy trying to make a buck." "That's it exactly," says Gutkoska. By conversion time...