Word: boss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sooner was Harry Truman back in Washington than White House aides hastened to spread the soothing word: the Boss was not in a vindictive mood. There would be no wholesale firings in the new Administration. But some changes were certainly in the works...
Administration who had labored faithfully for the boss's reelection. The new law, he said, would definitely restore the closed shop...
...which had spawned Pendergastery. He quickly expanded into other wards. The Kansas City Star attacked Binaggio as a product of old North Side hoodlumism; the St. Louis Post-Dispatch linked him with the Capone race-wire syndicate. But with last week's election, Charley Binaggio became the Democratic boss-apparent of Kansas City. Charley characterized the victory as "a complete answer to the baseless and malicious charges made about me by the press." To Kansas City it sounded like old times...
...different. The boss's car takes you to work. You work in a warm, clean office, and when the day is done, the boss's car takes you to his luxurious apartment. There you eat steak, drink red wine, and, after brandy and coffee by the fire, you go to bed in a soft, clean bed in the boss's bedroom...
...Other sections, the ban on the closed shop, were interpreted by the labor unions as clearly anti-union. The authors of the Act, and the Republican party in the campaign, insisted that the Act was for the benefit of the individual worker; it would free him from the labor boss. It was this attempt to drive a wedge between the labor leader and the rank and-file which probably explains more than any other single factor the intensity of the reaction of labor leaders. The Taft-Hartley act was written on the premise that the union leader did not truly...