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Daley became a precinct captain at 21, rose to Cook County party chairman in 1953. With more than 25,000 jobs at his disposal, he quickly learned to use patronage. When he won the mayoralty two years later, he insisted on keeping his party job, which cemented his power. Ever after, he used his victory total as his license-plate number: 708,222. He was re-elected five times...
...asking for the impoundment of the scoreboards from the Dartmouth-Brown and Harvard-Yales games," he heard Betty say, "and are asking for a recount of the points scored last week in the key precinct of Cambridge. However, we first want to wish the best of luck to the incoming winners Jimmy Anderson and Walter "Fritz" Cozza in the upcoming year...
...gone fairly well, he thought, though a small slip was costly. The reference to Cornell as being "under Harvard's domination" was a mistake, and the backlash from the misstatement was severe. Upset Ithaca partisans cast ballots against Restic in a 9-3 proportion, and the loss in that precinct was a surprise to all prognosticators...
...This is the heaviest student turnout we have ever had," Marion Pynn, clerk of the precinct poll said yesterday...
...issues of the campaign brought the good number of young people in this precinct to the polls, but they seemed well-informed and interested in the referendums," the warden said...