Word: boss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Commission under Herbert Hoover during the World War," but upon whose soul now rests the necessity of supporting the curious "boom" of his fellow Ohioan, Senator Willis. Never did a big butter-&-milk man undertake a braver job than attacking a once honored chief for the sake of a boss to whom he was now obligated. And never did a big butter-&-milk man have his job turn out a more gruesome botch than did "widely known" Mr. Brand...
...self-made men there is always a moment when someone they are working for discovers their ambition. That moment came for Robert Dollar when the camp superintendent found him trying to learn arithmetic. The superintendent had him trained to keep accounts. At 21 Robert Dollar was a lumber camp boss. He got $26 a month and saved his money. He began to pay installments on a farm, bossing a camp of 60 lumberjacks. "I never had to smoke or drink to make them know I was the boss...
...chief change in the pre-convention situation took place in Massachusetts, one of the Big Three (the others are Pennsylvania, New York) whose Republican bosses want uninstructed delegations with which to control the Convention. In Massachusetts, Governor Alvin Tufts ("Peter Bond") Fuller revolted against Boss William Morgan Butler, refused to be an instructed delegate and told the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company that "the next President of the United States will be Herbert Hoover or Alfred E. Smith...
...bombing of a ward boss's home...
...reported that girls who work in Kresge Stores took a frank and unwholesome delight in the misfortunes of their "boss;" that it pleased them to know that the man whose name was painted with spotless gold upon a thousand red facades, whose fame for righteousness and reformation was as large as his fame for wealth, was after all no better than themselves; mayhap, not even as good. A year and a half ago, Kresge wrote to Senator James Couzens, asking him for a $1,000 contribution to a girl's home. With a larger check, the senator sent Kresge...