Word: boss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, onetime boss of the Reichsbank (and a convicted "major Nazi offender" released last fortnight by a German appeals court) got cautiously astride the Marshall Plan fence: "I rejoice over the willingness of the American people to help Germany ... To live from alms kills a man's dignity...
Louis Budenz, professional ex-Communist, advised Harry Bridges, Communist-line boss of West Coast longshoremen, to return to the faith of his Roman Catholic youth: "I know from personal experience how troubled must be the conscience of Harry Bridges, and that is why I am presenting this thought directly...
Four months ago, after a squabble with his imperious boss, he had left the paper, but had stayed on as her personal fiscal adviser until shortly before her death. Then, six weeks ago, he had learned that a codicil to Cissie Patterson's will had cut him out of a million-dollar share in the Times-Herald when she left it to seven other company officials (TIME...
...First cousin once removed to Pennsylvania's onetime political boss, Boies Penrose...
Dirty Business. Jerome Vincent O'Grady, 38, a personable Manhattan lawyer and former G-man who spends most of his working life at the New York tracks but never places a bet, is boss of Pinkerton's New York Racing Service. Since April, when the racing season started, O'Grady and his 300-odd P-men have ejected, or warned, about 500 bookies at Belmont, Jamaica, Aqueduct and Saratoga. For this and other services, New York's racing associations pay the Pinkerton agency about $1,000,000 a year...