Word: boss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Registration. By "Hague-Land"' is meant the strongly Democratic northern counties of New Jersey, dominated by the Hudson County machine of Boss-Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City. A typical complication of the election was seen last week in Hudson and Essex Counties. N. J. Republicans had been 'trying to fasten shame on Boss Hague. They obtained a new election law and challenged some 40,000 names on the heavy registration .'lists', as illegal. The Democrats retaliated -by charging that in Atlantic City, a Re publican stronghold. 2,370 names were il legally registered, including names...
Also noted was: "Richard Croker Jr., $3,000." Mr. Croker is the son and namesake of the late famed Boss Croker of Tammany Hall. His name on the list brought mingled memories: of Tammany iniquities; of the family fight for Boss Croker's $5,000,000 estate; of a Croker son who killed himself racing automobiles; of another son who died from smoking opium, on a train, near Emporia, Kan.; of a Croker daughter who married an Italian count and another who married a riding master; of Boss Croker's second wife, a Cherokee princess; of the Croker...
Indiana. The trip through Indiana was informal but not speechless. There were hatwavings and handshakings at Kankakee and Lafayette. At Indianapolis, the Nominee made a short outdoor speech and visited State Boss Thomas Taggart in a hospital where, unfortunately for the Brown Derby, he has long been confined. Nevertheless, sick Boss Taggart whispered: "You'll win Indiana...
...week by fiery spellbinder and factional leader Senor Antonio Soto y Gama. Though he dared not name "Mexico's Idol," the denouncer clearly meant bullnecked, heavy-jowled President Plutarco Elias Calles. When Senor Calles' term expires, in December, it is understood that he will become the Leader ("Boss") of the new "Grand National Revolutionary Party." This will reunite the national majority once dominated by the late, assassinated President-Elect Alvaro Obregon (TIME, July 30); and therefore factional leaders see in the "Grand Party" the doom of their petty potency. "The Grand Party is being formed," thundered Factionist Soto...
...satirical sharpness under the late great Artist Whistler. His method is the oldtime one of standardizing the figures he seeks to flay. His corpulent, fat-jowled metaphor for the G. O. P. has became almost as well-known as was the late Thomas Nast's moneybag effigy of Boss Tweed years ago.* In the gallery of Kirby stigmata, the figure of Theodore Roosevelt the Younger as a small, grimacing boy in a sport shirt, invented for the Smith-Roosevelt gubernatorial contest in 1926, has lately been joined by a small, wild-eyed girl in a smock, brandishing a torch labeled...