1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462889903321

Autore

Pensoneau Taylor

Titolo

Governor Richard Ogilvie [[electronic resource] ] : In the Interest of the State

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Carbondale, : Southern Illinois University Press, 2009

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (316 p.)

Disciplina

977.3/043

977.3043

Soggetti

Governors -- Illinois -- Biography

Governors

Illinois -- Politics and government -- 1951-

Illinois

Ogilvie, Richard B

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Frontispiece; Book Title; Copyright; Copyright Page; Contents; Contents; Preface; 1. Turning Points: 1944 and 1969; 2. Inauguration and Transition: The Early Days of Ogilvie's Governorship; 3. A Political Career on the Line; 4. From Sheriff to Cook County Board President; 5. The Accardo Case: Taking on the Big Tuna; 6. The 1968 Campaign and Vote; 7. Bourbons in the Senate, Scandal in the High Court; Gallery; 8. Proposed, Debated, Passed: The State Income Tax; 9. More Ogilvie Coups; 10. The Constitutional Convention: A Triumph amid Setbacks; 11. War on Polluters

12. Campus Riots and the Guard13. Winning Control of the Budget; 14. Ogilvie in Person and in the Press; 15. Prisons, Highways and Other Ventures; 16. Dorothy Ogilvie; 17. Powell's Cash and Racetracks: Public Anger Boils; 18. Political Death; Afterward; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index; Author Bio; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

Although serious scandal erupted in Illinois Governor Richard Ogilvie's administration- eight hundred thousand dollars mysteriously appearing in Secretary of State Paul Powell's shoe boxes and other hiding places,



the downfall of two Supreme Court justices for questionable stock dealings, corruption surrounding the Illinois State Fair- Ogilvie's accomplishments, as Taylor Pensoneau demonstrates, rank him among the best governors in Illinois history.Perhaps the most important of Ogilvie's accomplishments during his single term in office (1969-1973) was the passage of the sta

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996394461903316

Autore

Cicero Marcus Tullius

Titolo

Ethicæ Ciceronianæ libri duo [[electronic resource] ] : Seu doctrina de honestè vivendi ratione ex Ciceronis libris collecta, ejúsque verbis & sententiis expressa, & Rameâ methodo digesta. à M. Antonio Buschero

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Londini, : typis Guil. Du-Gardi. Veneunt apud Thomam Matthews, ad insigne Galli Gallinacei, in Cœmeterio Paulino juxta portam Borealem minorem, an. 1652

Descrizione fisica

[24], 157, [23] p. ; 12mo

Altri autori (Persone)

BuscherAnton <1573-1638.>

Soggetti

Ethics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Latino

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

The first unnumbered leaf has a large signature 'A' on it.

Reproduction of original in the Glasgow University.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0166