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...city is building a new police station. A contractor who gave $10,000 to the Non-Partisan Committee to Re-Elect Mayor Daley gets to do the building. There is no competitive bidding. That's machine corruption...
Today, many of the old critics of the Chicago machine are members of the Non-Partisan Committee to Re-Elect Mayor Daley. They argue that somehow, Mayor Daley manages to govern a big city, which is a lot more than flashy reformers like John Lindsay seem to be doing. They also cite the many achievements of the Daley administration and all the buildings he's erected. When he won re-election earlier this month, editorial writers all over the country sighed and spent a lot of ink marveling at his ability to rally popular support...
...give a higher priority to slowing inflation or to bringing back full employment? Republican Sprinkel and Democrat Okun concur that the U.S. cannot do both in 1971. Heller adds that in order to restore full employment even by Nov. 7, 1972 -when voters will decide whether or not to re-elect President Nixon-the Administration would have to promote a business advance so vigorous that it would surely start a new inflation...
Boston politics have become comically notorious throughout the nation for their predictability and their scandal. Among Bostonians, the issue is a sore one. Most citizens feel that neither the council nor the school committee does much of constructive value, but on election day, they solemnly re-elect the incumbents. As one South Boston resident puts it. "They've got the experience, haven't they...
...forward into the breach and, in the true spirit of James Michael Curley, re-elect the Senator in 1970 and forget the rest...