Word: boss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looked like a magnificent mulatsdg.* In Budapest's carnival-bright streets, workers danced the csdrdds and the rumba, while youngsters jitterbugged. In parks, tents had been set up for the distribution of goulash and other delicacies; beer flowed as fast as it once did at Tammany picnics. Communist Boss Matyas Rakosi had ordered weeks of countrywide fun and frolic to get the voters into the proper mood for Hungary's national elections. As in all such well-run Communist affairs, there was no opposition; the communist "People's Independence Front" presented a single list of candidates...
...town of Celldb'molk, the Reds organized a huge picnic rally. One morning 55 flower-decked trains brought 150,000 peasants. Special Organization Guards (in blue shirts and red ties) led them into the park, kept the applause going 15 minutes after Boss Rakosi himself arrived. A peasant woman kissed him on the cheek, presented him with a white lamb. Said she: "Anybody who is not going to vote for the People's Front has no more brains than this little lamb...
Their efforts have not been concerned with the college presidency alone. Led by Queens Democratic boss James A. Roe, they have aimed for the past two years at the expulsion of what they consider "radical elements" in the student body and the faculty...
Father & Son. Amm-i-Dent is made by Jersey City's little-known Block Drug Co., founded 42 years ago and still very much bossed by taciturn Pharmacist Alexander Block, now 67. As chairman, Block cracks the whip over a family team-sons Melvin, 41, who is president; Leonard, 37, who handles the money, and daughter Betty's husband Albert Roberts, production boss. Together they boomed Block Drug to a gross of more than $10 million last year on 25 dental products (Poloris dental poultices, Polident denture cleaners...
Background Material. In Manhattan, when Waiter George Tucker was fired because his boss thought that Tucker's urge to write a novel might possibly embarrass patrons, New York State Mediation Board Arbitrator Sidney A. Wolff handed down the ruling for his reinstatement: "To deny a would-be author employment . . . might well stifle literary and creative genius...