Word: boss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spite of the endless bickering of defense counsel in Manhattan's federal courthouse, the trial of the nation's eleven top Communists began to take shape. Last week, an exchange between Judge Harold Medina and Party Boss Eugene Dennis, who is defending himself, threw the fundamental issue of the case into sharp, clear focus...
...year ago last week, a gunman jumped from a black sedan in upper Manhattan, pumped three slugs into a boss stevedore named Tom Collentine, and got away. Along New York City's 771 miles of crime-ridden waterfront, the murder sent only a ripple of excitement. Most of the New York press gave the killing a good play and then went on to other news. But not the New York Sun. It set a man to digging out the story behind the story. Last week stocky, hard-digging Reporter Malcolm Malone ("Mike") Johnson got a well-earned Pulitzer Prize...
...November the Sun sprang his series. It named the racketeers who controlled the piers, stole an estimated $50 million a year from cargoes, exacted a tribute for every pound loaded or unloaded, and held office in, or operated through, locals of the A.F.L. International Longshoremen's Association. Union Boss Joseph P. Ryan let off a windy counterattack that accused Johnson of being taken in by Communist-line reformers. The Sun printed Ryan's bleats along with Johnson's point-by-point rebuttal and went right on blasting...
...Brass. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce elected a new president: the Bridgeport Brass Co.'s big, friendly President-Chairman Herman W. Steinkraus, 58. As boss of Bridgeport Brass's 5,000 employees, Steinkraus has not had a strike or a work stoppage, has been so successful at labor relations that other employers often seek him as a speaker on the subject. He succeeds General Electric's Vice President Earl O. Shreve...
...Dream Is Yours (Warner) is a lightheaded musical as full of color and tunes as a jukebox. It has all been done before-frequently much better. A sort of musicomedy The Hucksters, it involves a radio talent scout (Jack Carson), his Hollywood boss (Adolphe Menjou) and a blonde disc jockey (Doris...