Word: pied
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile the big boys, those closest to the late mayor, were also meeting behind closed doors. They decided to divide up the pie among themselves and leave the blacks and Poles out of it. Alderman Michael Bilandic of Daley's own 11th Ward would get their backing for acting mayor on the condition he would not run in the special mayoral election to be held this spring. Ald. Edward Vrdolyak was supposed to get the powerful finance committee chairmanship Bilandic had held...
...deal that would placate the city's clamorous ethnic groups. Proceedings were briefly interrupted by a memorial service, then quickly resumed. Daley would have appreciated the rough-and-tumble- and the fact that the Windy City's politicians were having such trouble slicing up the political pie left by the master chef...
...back to the smoke-filled room for a new split of the pie. Bilandic remained the acting mayor with the understanding that he would not run for a full term in the special election that the city council must schedule within the next six months. A new post was created, vice mayor, which the twelve Polish aldermen were permitted to fill. To appease the 13 black aldermen, Frost was given the chairmanship of the finance committee...
Trying to make the presidency work these days is, as they say down South, like trying to sew buttons on a custard pie. Faith and forgiveness-and a politician's savvy-may yet see him through...
...original topicality. The moral certainty that once propped up satire has faded also. Wolfe is too canny to convey any advice except an implicit "knock it off." If he went further, he could easily spend the rest of his days on the chicken-salad circuit, pumping for apple-pie virtues. He would no longer be a purveyor of satire but a target...