Word: boss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington, Pa., they bombed the house of Tom Cakus, mine boss...
...Home State went, so went the country, in the good old days when men shouldered torchlights and platforms were beer barrels. And among the indicative Home States the name of Ohio was for the political boss like to that of Abou Ben Adhem. Till Sunday...
...George announcement had been prompted by assurance that boss Democrats John Sanlord Cohen and Clark Howell of Georgia had, for the first time in a long time, agreed on something. They had agreed to try to block Candidate Smith with Candidate George...
Smith was public utilities commissioner of Illinois. He entered the 1926 Senatorial primary. Samuel Insull, public utilities boss, contributed heavily to his expenses. Smith was nominated. Corruption was charged. The amount of the Insull contributions ($171,500) was published and discussed in Illinois. Illinois elected Smith notwithstanding...
Soviet Union. The nominal parliamentary and executive bodies of the Soviet Union are actually controlled by the Communist party?the only one permitted to exist?and this is directed by a "political boss," Josef Vissarionovitch Stalin, who abstains from exercising public office but is the all-powerful Dictator of Russia. The Soviet Union is technically "a federation of constituent republics," and its far flung administrative network is exceeded in scope only by that of the British Empire. At present Dictator Stalin is pursuing a moderate and conciliatory foreign policy...