Word: boss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...political analyst, and Laguerre feels that his staff has had considerable success in winnowing the real news from the political chaff that whirls through the French capital each week. A case in point was the disclosure (in TIME'S June 3, 1946 cover story on French Communist Party Boss Maurice Thorez) of the now accepted fact that there can be a split between the different Communist parties of the world over the issue of nationalism...
John Thurmond became Tillman's attorney and boss of Edgefield County. One day, when a drummer for a drug company used "hot language" about John being a Tillmanite and threatened John with a knife, John shot him dead. The jury's verdict: not guilty of murder...
Memphis' Boss Crump, who had been sulking ever since his candidate for the Senate was clobbered in the Democratic primary, was asked if he would support the Republicans. Said Mistah Crump: "My mind is pleasantly blank on the subject. I am sitting as comfortable as a pair of old shoes...
...weeks ago Chávez, who is head of the government's Institute of Fine Arts and the nearest thing to a government music boss, started rehearsals for a special "little" opera season. His foes said he was doing it to boost his own ego; he was trying to undermine the regular opera season ; whatever he did would be bad. Then, suddenly, Chávez' orchestra struck...
Such anachronisms did not bother antitrust's busy boss, Assistant Attorney General Herbert A. Bergson. His department had $3,400,000 given by the last Congress, more money than it had ever had. With it, Bergson predicted last week that he would outbust Trustbuster Teddy Roosevelt, who had gone after Du Pont in 1907. Said Bergson: "We have a lot more cases in the mill than they had then...