Word: boss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...responsible for the convictions of Kansas City's Democratic Boss...
...Cadillacs. Even before he became a $12,500-a-year Congressman, Leonard Irving had been living pretty well for a $125-a-week boss of Local 264 - each of whose 1,800 members had paid a $59 initiation fee for the right to dig a ditch or hoist a hod. His campaign for nomination (which President Truman did not support) had been expensive. In Washington, he rented an eleven-room house on fashionable Marlboro Pike, sported two Cadillacs, and dressed like a Texas banker...
...Meatball, but he had run screaming into the night with five bullet holes in him. Then came "Bugsy" Siegel, but he died ignobly (of four rifle slugs) while sitting on a divan in his girl's house. After that, sad-eyed little Mickey Cohen became the undisputed boss of Los Angeles' gangdom...
...enemies. Two of Zaim's are Nuri Said, Premier of Iraq, and King Abdullah of Jordan. Both have long cast covetous eyes on Syria as a desirable part of their respective schemes for an Arab federation. Zaim himself favors a revitalized Arab League, but would prefer to boss it himself. With the Palestine war over, his chances of doing just that seemed to be looking...
Voice from Beyond. When President Truman asks Lanny to undertake just one more mission to Stalin, Lanny lectures the dictator on world peace and leaves him barely able to reply. Author Sinclair also arranges for Lanny to hold an astonishing conversation with the voice of the Boss from the beyond...