Word: boss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Connolly decided that the sewer construction that had to be done in Queens was "the biggest job in the country." He told the civil service commissioners that he wanted "a man having peculiar knowledge of sewer construction" to boss the job. He said he had found just such a man in James Rice, a graduate of English Army schools, who had (according to Mr. Connolly) supervised more than $100,000,000 worth of sewer and road construction in the Far East and whose advice was constantly being sought by U. S. Sewer contractors...
...mayor since 1912-crisp, greying Mayor James ( Plain Jim of the Mission") Rolph Jr. To oppose Mayor Rolph's reelection there had now stepped forward James E. Power, tEe power behind whom was Sheriff Tom Finn, old-time politician. Mayor Rolph endorsed William J. Fitzgerald to oust "Boss'' Finn as Sheriff, saying: "Bossism must be thrust down!" San Franciscans reflected that "Plain Jim Rolph of the Mission"†† was the man who had brought the Panama-Pacific International Exposition to town, in L915. He was the man whom they had elected in 1912 to keep...
Julius Caesar and Boss Tweed ... Cleopatra and Coolidge ... Shelley and Trader Horn ... the flood of biographies comes pouring in out of the publishers' presses. Chaliapin and Bismarck ... Napoleon and His Women Friends ... Robespierre and Uncle Joe Cannon ... with every anecdote that ever murmured about them in five point type. All the state secrets the private correspondence, the family albums, the unkind word and the billet doux that was lost before it could be committed to the flames...
...solved his native Ohio's tally-sheet forgeries in 1885 and entered the U. S. Secret Service with a brilliant reputation which soon became international. Hero Burns was the detective who caught Charles Ulrich, the German counterfeiter; Taylor & Bredill, the Monroe-head $100 bill makers; Abe Ruef, corrupt boss of San Francisco, and many another. When James B. and John J. McNamara, the dynamiting brothers who from 1905 to 1910 blew up bridges, piers, hotels and finally the Los Angeles Times, were captured in Detroit in 1911, it was to Hero Burns that Theodore Roosevelt telegraphed: "All good American citizens...
...Vare's ever sitting down on his "costly"* seat in the Senate despite the "irregularities, illegalities and improprieties by which it was secured," Washington Correspondent Frank R. Kent of the Baltimore Sun, arch and acrimonious Democrat, last week wrote: "Mr. Vare is the smelly but powerful boss of the Philadelphia machine. ... As things stand, however, he has an excellent chance of being thrown out on his large...