Word: boss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hayden is far from being the first millionaire or hundred-million-dollar-corporation-director to take off his $175 coat for Republicanism. His theoretical boss is a young millionaire-philanthropist called "Jerry" Millbank (Eastern Treasurer). And the latter's boss is the white haired president of Cleveland's biggest bank, known to that city as "Joe" Nutt (National Treasurer). And etc. etc. etc. For Republicans, this has always been so. Years ago, that great Pittsburgh steelman, B. F. Jones, became chairman of the Republican National Committee, and it never entered his head to resign anything. So, today...
...Hoover votes the three states contain by comparing, this way and that, the democratic and republican votes cast. But only one thing of immediate significance occurred. That was in Tennessee, where Finis James Garrett, for 23 years a member of the House, and since 1923 the House's boss Democrat, tried to get himself nominated for the seat in the Senate which now is occupied by blarney-tongued Kenneth Douglas McKellar. Senator McKellar won. "And that," said other Congressmen, "spells FINISH for Finis...
Spencer Penrose, Colorado Republican, brother of the late famed Boss-Senator Boies Penrose of Pennsylvania. Reason: Prohibition...
...since he left the New York Assembly [in 1915]. But, in his many activities, he has forgotten much of his Assembly record. . . . "He, with all his intelligence, with all his honesty, with all his courage-seems to have left his high qualities in escrow with Charles Murphy [oldtime Tammany Boss] when he went to Albany and there made a Tammany record on the saloon, the gambler and the prostitute. "No Klansman in a boob legislature, cringing before a Kleagle or a Wizard, was more subservient to the crack of the whip than was Al Smith-ambitious and effective and smart...
...impotency of the Internationale to take any disciplinary action against Stalin results from the tremendous influence he exerts through the Communist party of Soviet Russia of which he is nominally "secretary" and actually "boss." Russians are forever reminding Englishmen who protest against the world propaganda of the Third Internationale that when James . Ramsay Macdonald was Prime Minister of Great Britain (Jan.-Nov. 1924), he continued to act as Secretary of the Second (Socialist) Internationale of which the Third (Communist) Internationale was originally a faction until it split off and achieved independence under Nikolai Lenin. The First (Radical) Internationale was organized...