Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been able to form a mental picture of the way the Nazi storm troopers came to power in Hitler's Germany. After watching the scenes of the brutal attacks by the Chicago police on the peace demonstrators, I think I know what that tyranny must have been like. Mayor Daley's inhuman repression was a blot on the fabric of human dignity. Daley for anti-Man of the Year...
...Chicagoan, I am ashamed of the brutality perpetrated by Mayor Daley and the zoo he calls "the finest police force in the world." Having spent three nights on Michigan Avenue observing the occupation of "Prague West," I find absurd Daley's charge that news coverage of the conflict was one-sided. King Richard was fortunate that the TV cameras could not see everything. One night, a cop overtook a young girl fleeing from tear gas. Grabbing her by the hair, he hit her across the face with his nightstick, ripped off her blouse, ripped off her bra. After clubbing...
...favorite television programs were on during the Democratic Convention. Mayor Daley starred in Garrison's Gorillas, assorted yip-hippies were involved in Run For Your Life. Not to forget the performances of McCarthy and McGovern in Mission: Impossible. Meanwhile, back at the houseboat, Nixon had a Laugh...
...first press conference after the battle of Chicago, Mayor Richard Daley was gruff and to the point. "Gentlemen," he said last week, thrusting his jaw out for angry emphasis, "get this thing straight for once and for all. The policeman isn't there to create dis order. The policeman is there to pre serve disorder...
...course, a verbal slip by a man famous for his bouts with the lan guage. Yet it said perhaps more than the mayor intended. Despite a 77-page official "white paper" and a blanket endorsement of his police by Daley him self, city authorities had yet to convince thousands who were there that the Chicago cops had been anything less than brutal to demonstrators, news men and almost anyone else who got in their way during the four days of the Democratic Convention...