Word: mayor
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Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley has bitterly declared that he will brook no trouble from would-be demonstrators when the Democratic Convention gets underway in August. "I think the great mass of American people has had enough of those who carry Viet Cong flags in the streets of this country, and are getting fed up with the cry of police brutality," he told his wildly applauding City Council...
...another move, Councillor Barbara Ackermann proposed that Mayor Walter J. Sullivan appoint a committee composed of the entire council to consider the hiring of a new city manager. The committee would set qualifications for the manager's job, advertise the post, and interview candidates...
Hayes and Alfred E. Vellucci (the just-elected vice-mayor) then clashed over an alleged bargain made at a caucus which they and the other three "independent" councillors attended prior to the election of Sullivan as mayor. Vellucci claimed that DeGuglielmo, speaking through Hayes, had agreed not to ask for public hearings on the dismissal motion. In return, none of the independents opposing the manager would call for a special meeting to speed his possible removal...
...director of the Center will be Paul M. Densen, who is now deputy administrator of New York City's Health Services Administration, one of Mayor John V. Lindsay's super-agencies. Densen's appointment is effective in the fall...
Floyd B. McKissick, the CORE leader and an old college friend of Lowenstein's, calls it "relevancy." Barney Frank '62, Mayor Kevin White's administrative assistant, calls Lowenstein's style "political practicality." Newsweek recently dubbed him "John the Baptist," the Saint who prepared the way for Senator Eugene J. McCarthy's presidential candidacy...