Word: paschen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Treasurer Herbert C. Paschen (rhymes with fashion)-hand-picked by Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley to run against Stratton this fall. The Chicago Sun-Times, sniffing for new leads in the Hodge case, fingered the county treasurer's chief deputy, John E. Sullivan, for suspicious connections with two banks through which Hodge had done his double-dealing. Paschen fired the man. Then the news paper revealed the existence of a Herbert C. Pashen Employees Association "welfare fund" in the treasurer's office-made up by contributions from banks where county money was on deposit. Some...
Flowers for the Sick. Paschen fought back. He went on radio and TV to say that the fund had been used solely for welfare purposes, e.g., flowers for the sick. Besides, he argued, his predecessors had established similar funds and nobody had objected. In any case, he abolished the fund and ordered its $14,000 balance returned to the banks...