Word: boss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...axiom: you can't beat somebody with nobody. Before they ditched Truman, they had to get a new band wagon rolling. And that was a risky business. Chicago's canny little Jake Arvey was the first front-ranker willing to take the risk. "Come convention time," announced Boss Arvey, "I will vote for ... a man who can be elected. I hope General Eisenhower becomes available...
...Communist-cored Greater New York C.I.O. Council, which was noisily defying Murray's edict against backing Henry Wallace, took a stiff right hook from Michael J. Quill, boss of the C.I.O. Transport Workers Union. Tough Mike, heeding Murray's gospel, quit as president of the council, and advised New York City's 42,000 subway workers and bus drivers to have nothing more to do with...
...Urge to Boss. "I became an orphan too early," Markos told a Russian correspondent last week. He was one of seven children. His father, a schoolteacher in the village of Tossia in Asia Minor, where Markos was born 42 years ago, died when Markos was eleven. For the next few years he worked in a grocery, served as a carpenter's apprentice. Markos was 16 at the time of the great trek of 1922. For a year he peddled oranges in Constantinople, ran messages, barbered. He lived mainly on money sent by an uncle in New York...
...hero's laurel wreath, took the public bows. He then set himself up as regional commissar. Allied officers then in Salonika said: "He believed in running everything himself. No detail was too small, no decision too trivial to require his personal attention. He had the urge to be boss in a big way." When Zach-ariades decided to boycott the national elections of 1946 and to build up a Communist revolutionary force, Markos took to the hills...
Says Binder: "The U.P. is so convinced that it cannot get a prize while [A.P. Boss Kent] Cooper is a member of the advisory board that it refuses to submit [any more stories...