Word: kerner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same steel and glass skyscraper where he has worked for the past five years, Federal Judge Otto Kerner sat rigidly before a packed, expectant courtroom, waiting to hear the verdict on himself. As befits a successful and distinguished man, a major general in the National Guard, twice Governor ot Illinois he looked calm and controlled. He searched the faces of the jury-seven men and five women, including housewives and hand laborers-who all avoided his gaze. The foreman said that the jury had reached a verdict, after 16 hours of deliberation, and he handed a sealed envelope...
...Chicago board of education for five years, prompted some pols to tout him as a promising candidate for the 1964 Illinois gubernatorial race. Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, however, dashed Shriver's hopes when he let it be known that he was supporting the Democratic incumbent, Otto Kerner. It was the first of Shriver's several disappointing attempts to run for elective office...
Always much more concerned with affairs at home than in Washington, Daley wants above all to keep his machine intact; recently it has taken quite a beating from scandals involving former Governor Otto Kerner and State's Attorney Edward Hanrahan. Rather than get out of the primary as Daley instructed him, Hanrahan is battling the machine's candidate for state's attorney. Daley will have his hands full keeping Cook County under control. If Muskie can help him, then Muskie will be his candidate-provided that the Senator does not stumble along the way in the primaries...
Racing Dates. When Mrs. Everett was called in earlier this year by Government probers and asked to explain her dealings with politicians, she promptly blew the whistle on Kerner and Isaacs. Kerner appeared twice before a federal grand jury in Chicago to insist that when he was Governor he had not intervened in the allocation of racing dates, which might have benefited Mrs. Everett. Other state officials, though, reported that Kerner had conferred with them about racing seasons. However it came about, during the tenure of the Kerner administration Mrs. Everett was able to get additional racing dates and turn...
...investigation was not limited to the Kerner transactions. Tax investigators uncovered a seemingly endless string of politicians, both Republicans and Democrats, who held stock in one horse-racing association or another during the 1960s. Most embarrassing to the Daley administration, besides the allegations concerning Kerner, were revelations about other pals and close political associates of the mayor who had been trafficking in race-track stocks. Among them were two former law partners of the mayor, one a federal judge, the other an Illinois circuit-court judge; a Democratic congressman and leader of the Illinois Democratic house contingent; and a high...