Word: boss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boss. It was-a humble-talking Louis Johnson who moved into Henry Stimson's old office and planted his big feet under a desk once used by Black Jack Pershing. "Golly, we need help," he told his well-wishers. "Please feel free to give me some advice...
...Government, which had failed twice to kick Australian-born Harry Bridges out of the country as a Communist, was at it again. Last week in San Francisco, a federal grand jury indicted the Longshoremen's Boss Bridges for perjury. Said Bridges, with the air of a man who was weary of it all: "It's no surprise." But the Government thought this time it might prove...
...cars paraded through flag-draped Prague last week. Outside the huge Industrial Palace stood a cordon of Czech security police carrying Tommy guns. Inside, 1,000 delegates to the Ninth Congress of the Czech Communist Party met. Joseph Stalin was named "honorary chairman" of the meeting; his representative, Cominform Boss Georgy Malenkov, attended in his stead. The congress sent a telegram to "Dear Comrade Stalin": "We shall always stand faithfully by the side of the U.S.S.R...
...clothing and textile stores, 18,000 are owned by Jews. Many of the stores have already been driven into bankruptcy by heavy taxation and government-operated shops which make a point of underselling them. The rest of the Jewish stores will shortly be expropriated, according to Hungarian Economic Boss Zoltan Vas, himself...
Communist Boss Max Reimann shouted "No!" Nevertheless, Germany-Europe's greatest force for good or evil-had been reborn...