Word: boss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...labor leader who knows the Communists like the back of his hand is San Francisco's Harry Lundeberg, a far-left-winger now boss of the A.F.L. Sailors Union of the Pacific. Not long ago, Lundeberg got a letter from William Z. Foster, chairman of the Communist Party, appealing for help in fighting the Mundt-Nixon bill (see The Capital). Tough, tattooed Harry Lundeberg last week punched out this reply...
Ickes' most interesting revelation-how he tried to help Roosevelt fire Secretary of War Harry Woodring-also shed considerable light on the character of his boss...
Brooklyn Dodgers Boss Branch Rickey* ('04) and the 41 other trustees knew what they were getting. Able Administrator Flemming, an Ohio Wesleyan man himself ('27), has been a trustee for six years. He is a leader in the Federal Council of Churches, a Sunday-school superintendent, the father of five...
...Central Park (Universal-International) is the story of Boss Tweed in a Currier & Ives setting. A colleen (Deanna Durbin), just off the boat from Ireland, flirts with a whiz-bang muckraker (Dick Haymes) from the New York Times. Her illiterate father, in all innocence, fattens zoo pheasants for the table of sybaritic...
...Boss Tweed (Vincent Price). When Rake Tweed entices Deanna down to an intimate supper, papa tags along and spoils everything. It all came right in the end; and that is why, today, we have PM, democracy, and the 10? subway fare...