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White who entered City Hall in 1968 on reformist platform before setting up a political patronage system patterned after the machine of late Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley, stressed common points between the two cities, citing "the natural tug for power between the Mayor and the City Council a tension that has been a concern of both mayors...
...Where does Boston stand in relation to these dramatic steps?" King asked, referring to Washington's attempts to fight the political machine built up over several decades by Daley and nurtured by Chicago's last mayor, Jane E. Byrne...
Second City, natural home of one-term Jane and Al Capone Donahue (Phil) and Banks (Ernie) Clarence Darrow, big attorney Mayor Daley, William Paley The Trib's McCormick, Ebony's Johnson Kup and Hef and Gloria Swanson City that works! No social strife! And at least one man who danced with his wife...
Black Chicagoans' cuphoria over the 36 percent of the Democratic primary votes that gave Harold Washington victory over his two white opponents--Jane Byrne and Richard M. Daley--had barely subsided before conservative pundits in Chicago and elsewhere began equating the 80 percent ethnic-bloc vote that Blacks gave Washington with anti-democratic or racist behavior. This disingenuous equation of ethnic-bloc voting with anti-democratic behavior holds that ethnic of racial cohesion in electoral politics is intrinsically irrational, sanctioning emotional and atavistic styles of political behavior. Though there is a superficial plausibility to this sort of reasoning it doesn...
Daniel P. Daley, executive director of Project Bread, a Boston humanitarian group that sponsored the walk, emphasized last week that this year's support was particularly crucial. Boston is typical of large American cities, with 40 percent of the population under the federal poverty level, he said...