Word: ward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boss of the teeming 24th Ward, on Chicago's West Side. He was the ward's first Negro alderman. He wore $200 suits, and his friends called him "Duke." He held real estate valued at more than $100,000. He had just leased a shiny new political headquarters, with autographed photos of people like John F. Kennedy on the wall. That was how it was with Benjamin F. Lewis, 53. Everything was going his way. Last week he was re-elected as alderman by a pretty decisive margin-12,189 to 888. It almost seemed as though...
Through the years, Lewis worked as a clerk in the U.S. Employment Service, became a second lieutenant in World War II, returned to Chicago as a bus driver and began mixing into politics. The 24th Ward was changing character. Negroes were crowding into the neighborhoods and Jews were moving out. Lewis got to know the newcomers; he had gone to work for the city as a housing inspector. More and more, as the South Side slums grew too oppressive for the Negro population, the 24th became their haven-and Lewis their leader. "Ev ery time that iron ball bats down...
...handy man with words, Lewis called the 24th Ward "a socio-economic garbage heap." He was fond of pointing out that "there are 75.000 people squeezed into my ward, more than Joliet or Waukegan, and almost as many as Springfield, Ill. We have the highest percentage of high-school dropouts and the highest percentage of people on relief. We have the highest rate of unemployment, the highest rate of juvenile delinquency and a very high rate of apathy and disillusionment." Lewis even moved actively against the miseries of overpopulation. During his last campaign he had his precinct workers distribute "little...
...support. It is a vaudeville show, really, started off by a couple of sensational jugglers and featuring a wildly improbable first act finale: a rousing fest of gospel song by the Clara Ward Singers. Nightclub Singer Jane Morgan, tall, strong, blonde, cute-cute, and amply chestiferous, sings well with sex in her throat, and allows Benny to kiss her as if he were Robert Goulet (in mid-embrace, he notices her ring, whips out a jeweler's glass and studies her diamond...
Costanza died soon after, and Frederick grew up in Palermo, an unseen and uncared-for ward of the Pope. The boy, living almost as a beggar child, learned Arabic from the seaport's Arab sailors. He was to learn more than half a dozen other languages, including Hebrew and English. At 14 he was crowned King of Sicily. He held no power and had neither arms nor money. But by his late teens, chiefly by force of an agile mind and a personality radiantly well suited to rabble-and noble-rousing, he had seized control of his inherited German...