Word: kerner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major on-the-scene victim of the N.A.A.C.P.'s broad-gauged anger was none other than Chicago's Democratic Mayor Richard Daley, who has made a successful political career out of collecting Negro votes. Accompanied by Illinois' Democratic Governor Otto Kerner, Daley spoke to the convention, admitted that the Chicago civil rights situation is not perfect, but certainly is "as good as any." When Daley insisted that "there are no ghettos in Chicago," there were murmurs of disbelief in the meeting hall...
...blew up in March when the state senate refused to approve a $5,100,000 emergency appropriation to cover welfare payments for May and June. The legislators wanted new ceilings clamped on payments to individual families, which sometimes exceeded $500 a month. While Illinois' ineffectual Democratic Governor Otto Kerner bargained and pleaded with the senate, 352,000 people on the relief rolls began to go hungry...
...around Chicago. In scenes reminiscent of the Depression breadlines, Negroes queued up for four days to get 35 Ibs. of food per person. Jostling, weeping, the people shoved their pushcarts and shopping bags into the dispensing lines and hauled away 500 tons of food. In Springfield Governor Kerner, who had vowed never to sign a bill with a welfare ceiling, gulped down his promise, approved a compromise bill that henceforth will limit the amount of money given to any one welfare family...
...likeliest-looking office is Illinois governorship in 1964, and during a television appearance last month, Shriver indicated that he had his eye on that job. This produced acute jitters in the insecure incumbent, Democrat Otto Kerner, who serves at the pleasure of Chicago Boss Richard Daley...
Seeking reassurance, Kerner obtained qualified support from Daley, and last week was able to announce that Shriver "wrote me a letter-and I still have it-in which he indicated that he will not be a candidate." Shriver had indeed written to Kerner, but was careful to say he would support the Governor "if" he were a candidate for reelection. With Daley and Shriver both hedging, Kerner was hardly secure...