Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when he prosecuted a Chicago gang boss on income tax fraud. Ogilvie's masklike, bespectacled countenance became a familiar sight on . Chicago television screens, enhancing his image as a tenacious racket buster. As the rare Republican who could win elections in Daley's domain, Ogilvie and the mayor have a longstanding feud. In 1962, Ogilvie was elected sheriff of Cook County, and four years later he won the presidency of the Cook County board of commissioners...
Narrowing the List. Wagner's entrance into the race is expected to add stability to the Democratic contest by inducing at least two of the seven other announced mayoral candidates to drop out in his favor. Wagner will have to face his rivals in the June 17 Democratic primary. His chances are no worse than those of Lindsay in the G.O.P. primary, where two conservative Republicans are challenging the mayor. Wagner presents a threat to Lindsay's renomination by the Liberal Party, which provided Lindsay's margin of victory last time. The Liberals have backed Wagner...
...Above Demagogy. Any other time, Reddin's resignation would have caused only surprise in Los Angeles. In the midst of a bitter mayoral campaign, it became an immediate political issue, with Mayor Sam Yorty, the underdog, espying an angle that might make voters forget the shortcomings of his own regime. Never one to avoid a little demagogy when cornered, Yorty had already charged his opponent, Negro Councilman Thomas Bradley, with running a racist campaign...
...Yorty claimed that Bradley was partly responsible for the resignation of Reddin, probably the best-liked big-city chief in the country. Though Reddin would deny it, said Yorty in his pious fashion, he was really worried that Bradley, who has often criticized the police, would become mayor...
Would he have remained as chief and taken orders from a black mayor? "Hell, yes!" was his answer. Still, his decision to leave at this time has probably hurt Bradley, if only slightly, and the black councilman-himself a former L.A. police lieutenant-will now have the added burden of proving to many whites that he is indeed for law and order...