Word: boss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Secretary of Commerce shall regulate under principles laid down by the commission, and shall initiate such further regulaton as may be necessary. BUT, anyone who dislikes a Department of Commerce regulation, may appeal to the Commission which will consider the case de novo. Ultimately, the Commission can remain "boss," if it so chooses...
...obscurity of the U. S. Vice Presidency, the administration of New York City was noisome. Where Tammany Hall did not control, the gangs of Senator Thomas C. Platt (1833-1910) took graft. Mr. Cutting, then an obscure businessman in Manhattan's financial district, tried to fight the bosses, got little public aid. Obdurate, he took the presidency of the Citizens' Union and organized a "Fusion Ticket." An honest, upright man, he used the tactics of corrupt bosses, but with better intelligence. His followers won office, and ward heelers came to say of him: "He is the only boss...
...Authors. Julian Street was born in Chicago 47 years ago (he always knows what he is writing about). He worked on a Manhattan newspaper, married and soon set out to be his own literary boss. Painstaking and deliberate, he fixed upon Author Booth Tarkington as an object for deep admiration and their subsequent friendship had much to do with the Streets' removal to Princeton when it came time for their son to attend college. There, pensively fingering cigars, graciously suffering undergraduate interruptions, Julian Street produced his famed Rita Coventry and the O. Henry Memorial Prize story...
...Illinois, in spite of slush, in spite of the hostility of the potent Chicago Tribune and Daily News, Frank L. Smith was elected. He came up to Cook county (Chicago) with a lead of 150,000; met George E. ("Boss") Brennan, Democratic Wet, to whom Cook County had given a plurality of 80,000. In New York State the Democratic city can swing the state, but not in Illinois. The Independent Republican crusader, Hugh S. Magill, ran a poor third...
...Boss" Stalin will discourage the wasting of Communist fuel in vain attempts to set the world on fire, but shrewdly strives to keep the Communist flame alight beneath the boiler of his own political steam roller...