Word: polish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Conversely, the white ethnic wards, which have voted solidly Democratic since William ("Big Bill") Thompson was elected the last Republican mayor in 1927, went heavily for Epton. In the Polish-Irish-Russian 13th Ward on the Southwest Side, Epton took 34,856 votes to Washington's 1,457. Even the famed Eleventh Ward of Bridgeport, the bedrock Democratic base of the late Mayor Daley, voted overwhelmingly Republican. Holding the electoral balance were the city's six affluent "Lakefront Liberal" wards. Undecided until the very end, they finally gave Washington 40% of their vote, enough to assure...
...added that the group hopes to collect at least 1000 signatures by Friday night, before it mails copies of the petitions to the Polish Embassy and the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva...
Last night's discussion kicked off a three-day effort by the HRSSS to solicit signatures in College dining halls for three petitions in support of Polish political prisoners...
...others asked the Polish government to free two union activists who have been imprisoned in violation of international law, a spokesman for HRSSS said yesterday...
...organizer of the drive said yesterday that "mentioning the names of specific people in the petitions protects them from harm because the Polish government knows someone outside is watching them...