Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tears & Cold Turkey. Last week the machine mowed down Mayor Martin Kennelly, 67, a businessman with snow-white hair and matching reputation, who was drafted in 1947 to save the Democrats from defeat (after the noisome reign of Boss Ed Kelly). In two terms Kennelly cut the crime rate, reduced prostitution and open gambling, started school reforms and slum-clearance projects. He played along with the machine on patronage-but not far enough. Flushed with confidence after last November's Democratic victory in congressional elections, the leaders decided that Kennelly's degree of independence was an unnecessary nuisance...
...election night Mayor Kennelly, sipping sherry and nibbling sliced turkey as the returns came in, sadly told a friend: "I guess I knew all along I'd lose, but what could I do? I had to fight." A reporter mentioned the bosses. "Unbreakable, just unbreakable, aren't they?" said Kennelly. The results: Daley 364,839; Kennelly 264,775. Merchant Morris B. Sachs, a friend and defeated running mate, kissed Kennelly's cheek, and both men wept...
...Turkey's two mightiest political figures last week left their own shores to line up friends abroad. President Celal Bayar turned up in Karachi to cement a military alliance with Pakistan. Premier Adnan Menderes descended by air on Baghdad to sign a Turkish-Iraqi treaty of mutual defense against Communism...
...Iraqi treaty quickly became fact. Iraq's 67-year-old Premier Nuri es-Said, who was an officer in T. E. Lawrence's World War I desert army against the Turks, pushed the treaty through Iraq's parliament. Turkey's National Assembly ratified it unanimously. Since Turkey is a member of NATO, Iraq became the first of the Arab League states to join the pro-Western chain of alliances...
Moscow denounced the pact as "a stab in the back" for the Arab League countries. The U.S., which had carefully taken no hand in the negotiations, was pleased. The pact strengthens the Middle East's "northern tier" (the defense line from Turkey to Pakistan). Pakistan, hitherto isolated on the northern tier's right wing, exulted. "It's good to be a bridge instead of feeling like a chasm," said a Pakistan official. The Pakistani were talking of including Iran too, which like Turkey and Pakistan is Moslem but not Arab...