Word: royko
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago, Royko (7) 7. The Grandees, Birmingham (5) 8. The European Discovery of America...
...Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago, Royko...
...Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago, Royko...
...tell him of the poverty she had seen, Daley, in a long-winded reply, pointed out to the nun that their "grandparents can?? here with nothing," The blacks, he said, "should lift themselves up by their bootstraps like our grandparents did," Daley eventually went to the West Side, Royko tells us, in a helicopter during the riots, "to see what people do when they have no boots...
...Royko said a few weeks ago in a TV interview that Daley represents the wave of the future, that cities want strong leadership of the sort that Daley has given Chicago. This seems doubtful, if for no other reason than that blacks, who are rebelling against the machine, are also becoming a majority in Chicago and most other big cities. Still Boss stands as a monument to what can be done through a clever mix of self-interest, hate, fear, good timing, clever PR and strong leadership. If Boss is still relevant in the 1980's, it will be because...