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and city workers were afraid that Washington would seize the clout that had
always belonged to them and take the jobs, city contracts, and key political
appointments that went with the clout. And, of course, that's what Harold did.
Race shouldn't have played much of an issue, though. Washington was just
following a time-honored Chicago tradition. He was doing for the black com-
munity what Kenna and Coughlin and the original Daley had done for the Irish,
what Fred Roti and Anthony Laurino had done for the Italians, what Jacob
Arvey had done for the Jews, what Rostenkowski and Roman Pucinski did for
the Poles. Harold simply stuck his hand out and recited the city's unofficial
motto,
“Ubi est mea?”
—”Where is mine?” Paddy Bauler would've been proud.
