Word: mayors
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Stanley Grayson is New York City's deputy mayor for finance and economic development. His wife Patricia is a vice president at National Medical Fellowships, an organization that promotes the education of minority students in medicine. Together they earn about $200,000 annually. But more than once while she was sorting clothes in the laundry room of the luxury apartment house in which they have lived for eight years, Patricia has been approached by white residents who have tried to hire her as a maid. Her husband has seen white residents close the elevator door in his face when...
...says. "Another third are in jail or on dope. The rest of us just made it." He did more than just make it. A magna cum laude graduate of the University of Maryland, the Chicago investment counselor recently co- founded the Harold Washington Foundation. Named for the late Chicago mayor whom Glover once served as campaign manager, it provides grants to blacks for education, health care and the arts. "The black middle class has not done enough to keep the door of opportunity open," Glover insists. "Many of them try to assuage their conscience with an annual check...
...connoisseurs of roughhouse local politics, there is no place like Chicago and no name like that of the late Mayor Richard J. Daley. Last week it appeared that the fabled boss's firstborn son might be the next occupant of the office in city hall from which hizzoner presided for 21 years. In a Democratic primary notable for its racially polarized voting, Cook County State's Attorney Richard M. Daley defeated Eugene Sawyer, a black who took over as mayor 16 months ago, after the death of Harold Washington, Chicago's first black chief executive. Daley...
Many blacks have not forgiven Sawyer for the manner in which he became mayor. Backed by 23 whites on the 50-member city council, he prevailed in a raucous all-night session a week after Washington's death. Supporters of Alderman Tim Evans, an ally of Washington's, smelled a sellout. Shouting "Uncle Tom Sawyer!" they asked, "How much, Sawyer? How much?" as they threw coins at him from the gallery...
Sawyer, a former chemistry teacher who, like Evans, got his political start in Daley's machine, never managed to recover from that inauspicious beginning. So inarticulate that he was dubbed the "Mumblin' Mayor," Sawyer made a few creditable appointments. But he also proved indecisive, delaying for a full week the firing of a subordinate who had made blatantly anti-Semitic speeches. Sawyer was reduced to claiming that he had accepted the keys to city hall in order to achieve gains for blacks. "Had I not taken those keys," declared Sawyer, "the ethnic rainbow we see would not be there...