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Word: boss (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rakovsky, after a brief sojourn in Moscow, will proceed to Tokyo as Soviet Ambassador to Emperor Hirohito of Japan; for, being a friend of Lev Davidovitch (Leon) Trotzky and therefore identified with the opposition group, his boss, Foreign Commissar Jorge Tchitcherin (pronounced teachereen) prefers him out rather than in the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sneaked Away | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

...preliminaries of a murder trial began last week in Cincinnati. For George Remus, once potent bootleg boss, later a convict, they were poison. They had shot dead his wife, Emogene, in a public park. Now he had to produce evidence that it was not first-degree murder. He sought to take depositions from 75 witnesses in various cities- including Attorney General Sargent and Roy A. Haynes- to show that he had killed to elude a plot against his own life and property. For another man, 'Legger Remus preliminaries were meat. He, Charles Phelps Taft II, lanky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Potent Son | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

Indicted last week with Governor Ed Jackson for his alleged chicanery, were Robert I. Marsh, his one-time law partner, and George V. Coffin, Republican boss of Marion County. David C. Stephenson is already in jail for life, as a murderer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Indiana Scandals | 9/19/1927 | See Source »

Statesmen. Among the famed statesmen noted at Geneva: Richard William Alan Onslow, Earl of Onslow, calm and ponderous. Next to him was observed his boss, natty Sir Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Assembly Meeting | 9/19/1927 | See Source »

tNow concerned with charges of political graft and corruption during the rule of D. C. Stephenson, Grand Dragon and Boss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: McCray Out | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

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