Word: boss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Illinois. George E. ("Boss") Brennan, Wet and Democratic, v. Frank L. Smith, Republican Dry, v. Hugh S. Magill, Independent Republican Dry. Until Churchman-School-teacher Magill entered the campaign with his purity festoons (TiME, Oct. 11), Illinois was considered safe for "Insullated" Colonel Smith. If Mr. Magill can poll 200,000 votes, "Boss" Brennan will come out of the Wetlands of Cook County (Chicago), East St. Louis and Peoria with enough of a plurality to win the Senatorship...
Once there was a pudgy-faced newsboy on Chicago's West Side. His name was William Lorimer. His tactics were questionable but he moved fast-bootblack, sign painter, street car conductor, "boss" of Chi- cago Republicanism, banker, U. S. Senator. The higher he rose, the fatter he grew and the more crooked became his methods. In 1912 the Senate ejected him for having obtained his seat by bribery. In 1914 his La Salle Street Trust and Savings Bank crashed; seven years later he was put in jail because the Government found his banking schemes fraudulent...
...dictates at Moscow, having overthrown Leon Trotzky and many another. Recently M. Trotzky and other anti-Stalinites, notably MM. Zinoviev and Kamenev, have been rumored to be gathering strength for a war of propaganda against the man of steel.* Last week M. Stalin, no office holder but the despotic "boss" of the Communist party, rapped out three orders. Leon Trotzky and his malcontents were commanded to cease their opposition to the dictator's will. For an hour they temporized, then found courage for battle ebbing. Next day the supremacy of Joseph Stalin stood once more unquestioned as the press...
...Boss" Brennan and the Democrats are jubilant over Mr. Magill's candidacy. They expect him to poll about 200,000 votes and cut heavily into Mr. Smith's downstate Dry strength. Thus, with the Republican Drys split and with Mr. Brennan looming in the Wet districts of Cook County (Chicago), East St. Louis, and Peoria, the Democratic camp has reached a peak of hopefulness...
...twelve-month he has demonstrated his control of the Communist Party and the Government by reducing to political vassalage or inconsequence no less than six of Lenin's most potent disciples: Trotsky, Zinoviev, Radek, Sokolnikov, Lashe-vich and Kamenev. The "new triumvirate" are: 1) Joseph Dzhugashvili "Stalin"- political "boss" par excellence, nominally only Secretary General of the Communist Party; 2) Alexei Ivanovitch Rykov, President of the Council of People's Commissars (i. e. "Premier"). 3) B. B. Quibe-schev, successor to the late Felix E. Dzerzhinsky (TIME, Aug. 2) as chairman of the Supreme Economic Council. The settled...