Word: boss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While Soapy Williams watched from the sidelines (his law partner, Hicks Griffiths, was named to replace Franco), Scholle pulled the strings. All Democratic candidates for the spring elections were hand-picked by the C.I.O. By moving smartly, new Boss Scholle had made the Democratic Party in Michigan a political arm of the C.I.O...
...most responsible for the hemisphere trade is a Spanish-born (1889), Chilean-raised, U.S.-trained salesman for Hays named Eladio Susaeta. His first employer, a rich Chilean rancher, sent him north to study animal husbandry at the University of California. Susaeta wrote his boss what he learned about milk-rich Holsteins, convinced him that milk could be as profitable as the beef on which Latinos concentrated. Returning with a B.S. in 1917, Susaeta brought several head along with him. He later stocked a ranch of his own with los Holsteinos, began promoting them far & wide. Ultimately he gave...
Major General Vasily Stalin, long-lipped son of the boss, who commanded Moscow's May Day air parade, was working his way up: he was now commander of all Red air force units in the Moscow district...
...Boss Reichhold and Conductor Krueger hurriedly called a peace meeting with the press-but the boss had one more threat to deliver. Said Reichhold: if reports of dissension within the organization continued, he would withdraw his financial support from the orchestra. He would make up his mind within the next three weeks...
...drinking Lawyer Malone (Brian Donlevy) wriggles into trouble and out again with monotonous regularity. For a while, he divides his time between a nightclub crooner (Dorothy Lamour) and a rich, fusty old client (Marjorie Rambeau). Then the crooner is convicted of murdering her boss. When she is supposedly executed (but actually spared by the governor), Donlevy gets a chance to put all his troubles under one roof: he moves beautiful Miss Lamour into the house with the old lady...