Word: stockyards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next came the brothels, but with somewhat less success. As police entered the Dai La Thien and the Pare aux Buffles (Stockyard), a lower-class emporium with a mere 200 population, scores of girls scrambled to safety over back walls. In some other places, indignant Foreign Legion and Vietnamese troops stood off the cops with rifles, and opposition from the military generally was so strong that Diem later exempted field brothels from...
Right Levers. By contrast, Democrat Richard Daley, 52, talked like a stockyard lad who made good (which he is) and looked like a model for the modern machine politician (which he also is). He had the support of Adlai Stevenson, Senator Paul Douglas and Hearst's Chicago American. Every day, after breakfast with his wife and children, he went campaigning with a baby-blue Cadillac and great dignity ("as a good father, good neighbor and good citizen"). That was good enough. On election day Democrat Daley won by 126,667 votes (out of 1,342,993 cast), the machine...
...verge of striking for recognition of their C.I.O. union, and here was the Most Rev. Bernard James Sheil, senior auxiliary bishop of Chicago's Roman Catholic archdiocese, accepting "as a great privilege" the invitation of John L. Lewis to appear on a C.I.O. platform in the stockyard district. "I want you to remember, Your Excellency," said the banker, a Catholic layman, "that the minute you step on that platform, you lose your chance to become archbishop...
Early in the week, arrayed under the flag of the United Labor Policy Committee, the bosses of C.I.O., A.F.L., the machinist and the railroad unions marched to the office of Mobilizer Charles Wilson. They were as full of beefs as a Chicago stockyard, and bellowing just as loudly...