Word: boss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Docile, the Conference began by re-electing to the Praesidium, or "Standing Committee" of the Party, Joseph Stalin, "political boss of Soviet Russia,". and 36 of his henchmen-among them Premier Alexei Ivanovitch Rykov, War Minister K. E. Voroshilov, and Vice President Nikolai Bukharin of the Third International...
Cowed Oppositionists. President Gregory Zinoviev of the Third International was not elected to the Praesidium. Neither was once omnipotent Leon Trotsky. Recently in open opposition to "Boss" Stalin, they have been forced to desist from obstructing him (TIME, Oct. 25), and figuratively whipped into a corner. During the week M. Zinoviev, "the bomb-boy of Bolshevism," archadvocate of violent onslaughts upon Capitalism, growled to his intimates, "Henceforth my work with the Third International is impossible...
...Boss" Stalin, officially Secretary General of the Communist Party, held back his annual report on internal conditions in Soviet Russia, and spoke in general terms of foreign affairs: "World Capitalism is still attempting: first, to encircle our country economically; second, to effect our political isolation through a concealed blockade; third, to take revenge for the assistance we have given to the British strikers* and the Chinese revolution originating at Canton...
...triumph in the end. No fool, M. Stalin was apparently engaged last week in ingratiating himself with the "pure" Communists to whom he is something of a heretic, however potent. The way seemed clear to introduce before the conference a program of action skilfully masking the "conservative" policies of "Boss" Stalin behind a screen of fervent Leninist oratory...
...Shedd to make change for a customer. On the long counter, polished and fragrant with the memory of countless bags of coffee and packages of flour and chocolate pushed across its surface, John Shedd did up his parcel, tool: the customer's coin, and stood waiting for his boss (who was usually occupied elsewhere) to come and get the change out of the cash-drawer. Time was wasted; customers grew impatient. One day a woman make an urgent petition...