Sentences with phrase «district during the heyday»
Kelly, who rose to power in the park district during the heyday of the patronage system controlled by the late Mayor Richard J. Daley, was frequently accused of running a bastion of patronage in the park district and unnecessarily inflating the administrative staff.
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In what may yet come to be regarded as the heyday of the Lubavitcher hasidim's outreach program, Jewish youngsters during the 1970s descended on Brooklyn's Crown Heights district nearly every weekend to spend the Sabbath with the followers of Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Lubavitcher....