Word: boss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...platform in pajamas and blue bathrobe. When a woman shouted that he sounded as if he had a cold, Harry Truman answered, "That's because I ride around in the wind with my mouth open." At almost every stop, he introduced Mrs. Truman as "my boss...
...immediate issue in Hungary was Communist Boss Matyas Rakosi's order nationalizing the country's 4,813 Catholic schools. In 1944, Mindszenty had been jailed for four months for his opposition to Naziism; now he was risking himself again. Through the Hungarian countryside he drove his own Alfa-Romeo at a dangerous pace from one mass meeting to another. After Communist police cut the power supply for his sound truck, he got his own portable generator. The government warned Hungarians not to listen, but the cardinal drew crowds of as many...
Tough, tyrannical Sewell Lee Avery had lost "the first round, but he did not seem to know it; although Montgomery Ward's board of directors had knocked him down a peg and made President Wilbur Norton day-to-day boss (TIME, May 31), Chairman Avery went on as if nothing had happened. Last week the second-round bell sounded...
Born. To John L. Lewis Jr., M.D., 29, quiet surgeon-son of the unquiet U.M.W. boss, and Sophie Madler Lewis, M.D., 27, practicing physician before marriage: their second child, first son; in Baltimore. Name: undecided. Weight...
...evening of March 27, 1944, a strange and moving scene took place in a park at St. Thomas, in the Virgin Islands. Crowds of natives, "shaking and kissing my hands, some kneeling and weeping," gathered to say goodbye to Government Secretary Robert Morss Lovett.* Officially he had resigned. His boss, Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes, had not wanted to fire him. But the Dies Committee had charged him with subversiveness and Communist sympathies. Lovett's real crime was old-fashioned liberalism. It made no real difference that the U.S. Court of Claims later called his dismissal "a shocking...