Word: kerner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years as Lieutenant Governor of Illinois, Samuel Harvey Shapiro was the man who came in the back door to see Governor Otto Kerner. So self-effacing was Shapiro that most voters knew him merely as a loyal Democratic minion from Kankakee-if they knew him at all. Last week the stocky, homely "Mr. Sam," 61, was sworn in as Governor of Illinois...
...automatically succeeded Kerner, who took a federal judgeship. In February, Chicago's Mayor Dick Daley, the state's chief Democratic potentate, picked Shapiro to run this fall in Kerner's place, and it seemed to many that the party was abandoning any real hope of keeping the governorship. But Shapiro seems determined to try. Although his inaugural was as modest as the man, Shapiro's first week in office reflected a quiet but forceful style developed during a 35-year political career. He drew up an emergency program for tornado relief, stopped all construction of state...
...Catholic fathers of St. Viator College that when the Jewish lad went there himself, he knew the faculty members not only by name but by feet. After getting a law degree from the University of Illinois in 1929, he set up practice in Kankakee, joined the Young Democrats, met Kerner, and won election in 1936 as Kankakee state's attorney despite the area's Republican preponderance. He convicted the state public-welfare director for neglect of duty after a typhoid epidemic killed more than 50 inmates at a state mental hos pital. Shapiro has been an impassioned crusader...
Shapiro's probable foe this fall is Cook County Board President, Richard Ogilvie, a Republican who outpolls Daley in his own domain. But Shapiro ran the state at least 50 days a year during Kerner's term, handling mine cave-ins and prison riots; when Kerner was off heading the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, Shapiro was acting Governor for 101 days. He got Chicago through the trauma following Dr. Martin Luther King's death, and has already traveled up and down the state. "I'm gonna campaign," Shapiro said, "because I'm gonna...
Meanwhile, a progressive-minded but basically impotent city government has issued a 44-page report on the April riot, calling for many of the programs suggested in the Kerner Report and emphasizing more local control of businesses in the ghetto. But the city government appears to be in a less powerful position than the interests that have always run Washington (Park and Shop and friends) through the Congressional committees...