Word: warded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...city worker he grinned at, also a precinct captain in the mayor's own 11th ward, returned his smile. He knew tonight was important. Mayor Richard J. Daley wanted this to be the largest parade ever held for a single individual. It would be bigger than the torchlight parades he organized for JFK and LBJ. The mayor is no Carter fanatic, but he needs a Carter victory to help carry his gubernatorial candidate, Michael J. Howlett, into office. So for Daley, control of the state is at stake; control means patronage, and patronage is power...
...than ever. Attendance was up 5% despite the absence of rousing pennant races. Happiness, as usual, was a warm winner. The World Champion Reds rolled methodically through their season, clinching their fifth division title in seven years. For the Reds, titles are so routine, and the dressing room after ward was so subdued, that Presider Robert Howsam had to splash champagne himself. Said he: "Some of these guys are acting too dignified...
Cambridge Convention '75, a liberal political group, challenged the Ward One vote in the March city council election because of the alleged misuse of absentee ballots by another candidate, Edward T. Stewart, a convention spokesman said yesterday...
...council election, and Lawrence DeGugliolmo filed suit in Middlesex County Court against Sondra Scheir, an election commissioner, and several other convention members on behalf of Stewart. The suit charges libel, alleging that the convention members did "intentionally, maliciously, negligently and recklessly challenge the legality of all absentee ballots" in Ward...
...Cambridge Convention spokesman, who requested anonymity, said the convention had challenged all absentee ballots in Ward One because they did not know which had been signed by notaries "associated with" Stewart...