Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chicago Mayor Richard Daley has been asked to appear at the hearings, but he has not yet sent a reply to the committee's request...
...Helena is "an affliction," the Mayor Daley of the piece when it's presented fast and hard. She is the agent of the straight world, an actress and an emotional dilettante, prying with indecent interest into the Porter's peculiar menage and even playing a part or two in it. Osborne has written the role with a number of spendidly tinny or stilted lines ("Darling, why didn't you come to me?" "It won't be very pleasant, but I've made up my mind...") and Janet Sarno delivers them as though they are distantly remembered formulations from...
...Said the official: "Daley went crazy. He couldn't believe that his city could do it to him." Daley publicly rebuked his police superintendent for being too soft on the rioters-even though most responsible law officers around the nation commended the Chicago police for their behavior. The mayor compounded his mistake by issuing his approval of shooting looters. The overall effect was to undermine the police department's chain of command and encourage the ranks to react violently at the later civil disturbances. That they...
...They just told us we'd have to leave and find another place by ourselves," said Deloros, who confessed that she left the village mayor's office in tears of rage after a meeting on the urban renewal project. (The developer commented that he would try to find a new location for the Sunset, but that the law did not require him to do so.) "If you asked the people around here, they'd tell you that they don't want us to leave," Deloros said. "We're not opposed to the new housing and all but we think they...
...name of New York Mayor John Lindsay drifted into the conversation, and Deloros said, "If Lindsay can walk the streets of Harlem and Brooklyn, why can't our mayor come down here and talk to us? He's just a few blocks over there," she said with a gesture sweeping past a juke box toward the dustry rear of the rectangular room. "He really should come here and see the people," she said, "That's what keeps him in office--the people...