Word: shrivers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...political aristocrats, OEO Boss Sargent Shriver and Illinois State Treasurer Adlai Stevenson III, were interested in the Governor's chair that Democrat Otto Kerner is relinquishing this year. Neither was overly eager for the tougher assignment of trying to unhorse Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, 72. And both were anathema to Daley's party regulars...
...Cook County Political Boss Jake Arvey forged a winning ticket with Adlai Stevenson for Governor and Paul Douglas for the U.S. Senate. Today the political boss is, of course, Chicago's Mayor Richard J. Daley, and the most likely candidates are State Treasurer Adlai Stevenson III and Sargent Shriver, head of the federal War on Poverty...
...Shriver, whose biggest booster for elective office in Illinois has so far been himself, has also been mentioned as a possibility for Governor. When Shriver moved to Washington in 1961 to work for Brother-in-Law John F. Kennedy, he kept a room in Chicago's Drake Hotel, thus meeting the legal residency requirements. In recent years, he has shown enough interest in the Governor's chair to irritate both Kerner and Daley. Nonetheless, Daley and his Democratic machine may urge Shriver to challenge Dirksen in the hope that his national image-and Kennedy finances -will be enough...
...among farmers to pay field hands and migrant workers less than subsistence wages, and fail to provide such minimal accommodations as toilets and running water. After personal inspection of farm areas and migrant-labor camps, he sat down in March 1966 and wrote a 47-page proposal to Sargent Shriver, director of the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity...
...Rural Legal Assistance agency would tackle the problem, right down to the precise location of its farm-town offices. Many attorney friends of the poor had opened store-front law offices in city slums; what Lorenz proposed was the country's first statewide rural legal-aid bureau. Impressed, Shriver investigated and pondered for two months, then agreed to provide funds for a $1,276,000 first-year budget...