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...cuts in student services that would pay for the raises. "Enough! No more! That's it!" cried Board Member Betty Bonow. "I won't make any more cuts." The union negotiators were exasperated too. "God," sighed one as she left Wednesday night's session, "if only Daley were alive." During Mayor Richard Daley's highhanded 21-year reign, when Chicago was calling itself "The City That Works," teachers went out on strike several times, but he personally intervened each time and forced a settlement...
Royko writes about a host of subjects in the hundred columns, all with the same scepticism and humor. He's not just a humorist, of course--as his life-long feud with Mayor Daley can attest--but this collection does not include his anti-Daley columns. Royko alternately exhibits conservative and liberal tendencies without contradiction: he simply exercises good common sense and defies facile labels...
...wants to work. That's a big change from a few years ago." In Illinois, the warring Democratic factions of Chicago Mayor Harold Washington and Cook County Party Boss Edward Vrdolyak reached a fragile truce but were still unable to deliver the way the late Mayor Richard Daley once...
...Harvard shipper didn't lot Daley or the team down though, as he calmly put the last tally in the nest...
...Conference of Mayors expressed opposition to President Johnson's proposal to move water pollution programs from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, where mayors were pleased with its administration, to the Interior Department, where its urban orientation might be lost. The President called Mayor Daley, Chicago's powerful political leader, and asked him to tell me, the lobbyist for the nation's larger cities, to back off. The mayor refused the President's request. Again, in January 1979, when President Carter and his staff were angered at my public analysis and criticism of the deep cuts in urban programs...