Word: boss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...authority in the Republican Party, namely: Senators Lodge, Borah, Johnson, and Penrose. Draw your own inferences if you dare. (3) A president who refuses his executive functions and is the mouth-piece of advisors (no matter how good the advice) is a man who invites that notorious figure, the boss to the White House. (4) National not state politics are of primary importance in this election...
...Johnson entered upon his political career just ten years ago. A practicing attorney in San Francisco and regarded as one of the leading men of his profession in his native state, he had attracted wide attention by his masterly handling of the prosecution of Abraham Ruef, the boodling boss of the city by the Golden Gate, after Francis J. Heney, assistant district attorney, had been shot down in court. Johnson stepped into Heney's place and, without compensation, fought the case through bitter weeks to a verdict for conviction...
...make the laborer understand that he has an opportunity to improve his station. We must destroy the conviction now universally held by the laboring classes that 'hard work don't pay; it's only pull that gets the good jobs the only way to advance is to marry the boss's daughter...
...hand, the college man stands, to a certain degree, aloof from the rank and file of the nation. A ward boss has a ten to one chance of defeating him in a municipal election. Therefore, he avoids local politics. And, on the other hand, the college man's interest in his own affairs, his desire to make more money, and to avoid controversy and compromise turns his course into business, or anything but politics...