Word: rans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gush ran thick and embarrassing for a man whose career has proved such an anti-climax. The searching, potentially revealing questions about Welles floated over the exchange and remained unanswered. Not because questioners failed to hint at them, but because Welles himself didn't seem to catch their drift...
Even considering Chicago's weak-mayor, strong-council municipal system, it hardly needs to be said that Daley ran the City Council, and when a few aldermen refused to be run, well, their microphones sometimes got turned off and their "legislation" always lost...
...Hall. Everyone knows John F. Kennedy '40 owed his election in part to the kingmaker and Carter clinched the nomination last June on the day Daley endorsed him. Even if the mayor failed to carry Illinois for Carter and got crushed by the Republicans in the gubernatorial election, Daley ran the party in Illinois up to the day he died...
...things Daley really ran, though, were closer to home. Schools, parks, housing, transportation, sewage, libraries--they all came under his control. His connections to the business community allowed him to decide on most major building construction. He ran many labor negotiations. Licensing? Building Inspection? Property assessment? Daley ran those. Much of the judiciary in Illinois is "elected", so a large number of the late mayor's men are on the bench. Same thing with the University of Illinois trustees...
Mann, however, ran away with the award for Worst Individual Costume. The eight-year veteran came dressed as a hard-luck, mediocre, straight-ahead kicker, the same costume he's been pathetically wearing for eight years...