Word: alderman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unopposed as a Newton alderman and in 1922 was elected to the Massachusetts House. In 1929 he was elected Speaker of the House and served in that post for eight years. In 1936 he tried to get the Republican nomination for Governor, failed, and ran as their candidate for Lieutenant Governor. The ticket lost, although Saltonstall by a margin only about one tenth as great as the gubernatorial candidate...
Meanwhile the big boys, those closest to the late mayor, were also meeting behind closed doors. They decided to divide up the pie among themselves and leave the blacks and Poles out of it. Alderman Michael Bilandic of Daley's own 11th Ward would get their backing for acting mayor on the condition he would not run in the special mayoral election to be held this spring. Ald. Edward Vrdolyak was supposed to get the powerful finance committee chairmanship Bilandic had held...
Roman Pucinski: The Polish alderman...
...first to move was Wilson Frost, a black alderman who declared himself acting mayor on the grounds that he was president pro tem of the 50-member city council (one alderman from every Chicago ward). Frost soon found himself out in the cold. A group of council members chose Michael Bilandic, 53, to be acting mayor. A bland, methodical al derman, Bilandic was chairman of the finance committee and the late mayor's right-hand man. Commenting on his origins in a rare display of levity, Biland ic noted that the two-man Croatian delegation in the city council...
...deal stuck. As a portrait of Daley beamed benevolently down on them, the aldermen decorously voted for the agreed-upon candidates. Alderman Edward Vrdolyak, who had yielded his finance committee post to Frost, hailed the selection process. "We all came to gether and put aside personal ambitions and ego," said Vrdolyak, who is the other Croatian on the city council. "I myself lost three jobs last week...