Word: interning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This summer I worked as a planning intern in City Hall, where I befriended some of the cigar-chomping politicos who make the place their ward headquarters away from home. The following description of the Chicago patronage system was provided by men who admit they owe their livelihoods, and often their social lives, to the machine. All the detailed information was necessarily supplied by well-connected precinct captains, and as usual, the names are changed to protect the guilty...
...than 35,000 employees the city hires directly, 80 per cent got their jobs through political connections. This figure does not include another 33,000 policemen, firemen and Board of Education personnel, many of whom also got their positions through a "sponsor." Even though I was only a summer intern in City Hall's "cleanest" department, seven fellow workers asked me who my "sponsor" was. Although I had none, I had to admit it didn't hurt any being related to Howlett...
...working in an interesting campaign, although he had no particular campaign in mind, and went home to Edina, Minnesota in June without a job, planning to look around. Had this year not been an elections year, Loegering thinks he would have remained in school, but summers spent as an intern and aide in Governor Wendell Anderson's office gave him an interest in politics, a few contacts, and a sense that he could be useful in a campaign...
...Congressional aides with wide experience on Capitol Hill presented a candid picture of the life of a Congressional intern at an Institute of Politics study group session at Winthrop House yesterday...
...main task of an intern is the answering of constituents' mail," Francis said...