Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...city political machine in the nation--pulled itself together under the sure hand and compromising nature of Michael A. Bilandic, a smooth party pro from Daley's own back-of-the-Yards ward. All the nascent fiefdoms popping up across town fell before the power of the new mayor and the still viable party machinery...
...than 100 people died of snow-related causes and for six weeks everyone else in Chicago had trouble walking across the street and getting their cars out of their driveways. The incumbent's diminutive challenger, a venomous former consumer sales commissioner by the name of Jane Byrne, branded the Mayor "the Abominable Snowman" for his lackadaisical clean-up efforts and shockingly won an historic victory in Tuesday's voters, raised on an image of "the city and brought thousands more to the polls than expected. The word this week in Chicago is that the weather would not have dared play...
...lawyering," says Brill. He promises investigative reporting on pettifoggery, news of the constantly shifting tides of power and prestige among law firms, and a regular column critiquing the performance of attorneys before the U.S. Supreme Court. American Lawyer Publisher Jay Kriegel, once an aide to former New York City Mayor John Lindsay, claims 9,000 subscribers now at $19.50 a year and hopes eventually to have as many...
...getting ahead. Olive Beech, who with her late husband founded Beech Aircraft, is now its chairman (not chairperson), and thus ranks as one of the nation's highest female executives. Wichita's Nancy Kassebaum is the U.S. Senate's only woman member; the city's mayor is Connie Peters...
...meal may have been more enjoyable for Vellucci than it was for Brewer. The veteran city councilor and former mayor of Cambridge told Brewer that unless Harvard voluntarily agreed to stop taking property off the tax rolls he will try to forcibly stop them with a City Council resolution...