Word: alderman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chicago's Democratic machine swept the city primary last week, and porcine (245 Ibs.) Alderman Mathias Bauler, who has fattened for 40-odd years on machine politics, celebrated by dancing a jig in his favorite trough, City Hall. "Chicago," grunted happy "Paddy" Bauler, "ain't ready for reform yet." He could be wrong: next month reform will get another chance at Chicago's polls...
...Republican Hope. "I will endeavor," proclaimed victorious Democrat Daley, "to walk with deep humility." Actually, he has no choice. Explained an alderman last week "Daley has to play ball with the real bosses in the party." The most powerful of these to emerge from last week's election: Congressman William Levi Dawson...
...Next, on top of that kind of work, we must have good can didates . . . As I see the Republican Party, we have such a wealth of brains, of ability combined with personality, that it is a tragedy in any locality for any of us to push into nomination - from alderman up - someone who doesn't represent the ideals and purposes in which we all believe." He took time out - "so that our balance of values does not get out of order" - to note that Communists and not Demo crats were the principal enemy. "Let's not build...
Last month, in an unprecedented move, the city council of Oxford decided to patch things up once and for all. For the 600th anniversary of the great brawl, they planned a special ceremony, invited officials of the university to attend. Only one alderman-Laborite E. A. Smewin-objected. "The relations between town and gown," said he, "seem friendly enough-but so do those between the German people and the armies in Berlin. Oxford is an occupied city...
Last week the Republican slate-making committee met and picked Merriam for mayor. The young (36) alderman wrote speeches for his friend Adlai Stevenson in the 1952 campaign, but broke with the city machine this year. Reformer Merriam, with great public show, avoided voting in the 1954 elections so that he would be eligible to run for mayor as a Republican in 1955. He has the support of Republican County Chairman Ed Moore and the tacit approval of Governor William...