Word: boss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME had no need to apologize to Superintendent of Schools Jansen for its report on Harlem [TIME, May 17]. Eight years before his ". . . two-year-project to reduce delinquency in Harlem," I established a psychiatric clinic at P.S. 89, in deep Harlem, under the sponsorship of the boss of the Truant Officers, George Chatfield. My final report, after two years of zealous effort, is so close to your April 5th [review of] the present Harlem Report, that I shall spare you the actual comparisons. And this was six years before Jansen's special pleading that Harlem gangs "mimicked...
News reached the U.S. last week of a speech which may well be a clue to Communism's mood. German Communist Boss Wiihelm Pieck recently told 200 "Socia11st Unity" Party workers: "We are losing one position after another to the reactionaries. We put on brilliant parades, but the election results are the opposite. We have examples of opportunist backsliding and degeneracy in our party. [Many Communists] can cite Lenin, Marx and Engels, but they cannot cope with practical politics ... A belief has awakened in the masses that ... we are on the downward path...
...dinner given by Army Secretary Kenneth Royall) to Army 5-in-1 rations (at the Quartermaster General's experimental kitchen). Brisk, soldierly and correct, he went out of his way to make friends, one day waddled into the White House to present President Truman with a gift from boss Peron-a small equestrian statue of Liberator Jose de San Martin. Along with the present went a little sales talk-a copy of Social Doctrine of President Peron inscribed by Juan Domingo to Harry Truman "with great affection...
...banana-peeled into this place," Chairman Sewell L. Avery once told a Montgomery Ward stockholder, "and then couldn't get out." That was only half true. In 1931 Avery, then head of prosperous U.S. Gypsum Co., reluctantly agreed to become boss of the giant mail-order house after it had lost nearly $9,000,000 in a year. He made "Monkey Ward" so prosperous in the following years that he never tried...
...also made Bill Norton the day-today boss of the second biggest merchandising business...