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Word: ward (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...primary-election night in Chicago, but what was the matter with everybody? Why no festivities, why not the usual arm pumping and back thumping? The hordes of loyal Democratic Party workers who gathered in the Sherman House hotel to await the returns were uncommonly solemn and silent. Ward bosses did not barge exuberantly into Mayor Richard Daley's tightly guarded inner office. They slunk in sheepishly or stayed away altogether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Mangled Machine | 4/3/1972 | See Source »

...state's attorney, but Insurgent Daniel Walker had won the party nomination for Governor against Paul Simon, now the Lieutenant Governor. Five machine-backed state legislators from Chicago had also gone down to defeat before independent candidates. As he moodily paced a corridor in the hotel, a ward boss remarked: "This is like waiting outside the maternity room when someone is having a miscarriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Mangled Machine | 4/3/1972 | See Source »

...enforcer. He asked voters during the campaign: "Would you want your law enforcement carried out by me or by a nice fellow?" A volatile man, he buttonholed precinct captains to remind them who he was and what they owed him. When he found that doors were locked at ward meetings, he sometimes tried to bash them down. He claimed that he had done more than anyone else to protect blacks from street crime, but he also played to the gut fears of whites. His appeal was likened to that of George Wallace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Mangled Machine | 4/3/1972 | See Source »

...Politics that cost the mayor the gubernatorial primary. When he announced for Governor more than a year ago, Dan Walker was scarcely known outside Chicago. He had served as vice president and general counsel for Montgomery Ward, and had headed the commission that investigated the rioting during the 1968 Democratic Convention. His report was an even-handed indictment of both demonstrators and police, but it aroused the everlasting enmity of Daley and other law-and-order backers by referring to a "police riot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Mangled Machine | 4/3/1972 | See Source »

...once expressed his debt to Chiang for approaching postwar Japan "with a spirit of regret and not of revenge," Sato replied, "My esteem for Chiang still has some influence on my personal feelings. But one must distinguish between personal feelings and official views. Whatever my personal feelings to ward Chiang, it does not mean I support independence for Taiwan. But I don't think this is what Chiang has in mind either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Sato of Japan: At the Pre-Kissinger Stage | 3/27/1972 | See Source »

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