Word: boss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Count Bernadotte. The train slid into the Englewood yards where a herd of Chicago politicians climbed aboard. It was 3 a.m. Cook County Commissioner Arthur X. Elrod boomed disappointedly: "The big wheel's asleep." But Mr. Truman got out of bed for a chat with Cook County Boss Jake Arvey. Then the train rolled on into Iowa...
Like his father before him, George Berham Parr, 47, is the political boss of oil-rich Duval County, in the southernmost appendix of Texas. He is also a banker, beer baron, oil promoter and lawyer. He went to jail for Federal income-tax evasion in 1936. After he got out, one year later, he began again to stretch his grip beyond his small core of about 5,000 Mexican-American voters in Duval to take in the Democratic machines of several neighboring counties...
...well-tailored Dave Beck, overlord of the West's teamsters, has been acting like a bull in the A.F.L. china shop. He has raided other A.F.L. unions. He has even scared the wits out of roaring Dan Tobin, the teamsters' international president and Beck's boss. Recently Beck demanded that Tobin fire Lester Hunt, editor of the union paper and Tobin's ally. Meekly old Dan complied. This week, writing in the Washington Post, Hunt wigwagged a frantic warning...
When Kay asked the General about it, he said: "Go ahead, I don't mind. Everybody else has written a book." So next week Kay Summersby's Eisenhower Was My Boss will be published. It is the story of her life from 1942 to the end of the war as chauffeur, aide and secretary to General Ike. Written from notes and memory, and whipped out with the help of a professional writer, it is a lively, garrulous, gossipy addition to the war's memoirs...
Since then the Pathé producer-exhibitor network has gone successively through bankruptcy, reorganization, Nazi occupation, and the purge of collaborators. The Bank of France's Ferdinand Liffran is titular boss, has the help of a potent cross-section of French big business (steel, oils, insurance, cognac and utilities are represented on Pathé's present board). By diligent squeezing Pathé last year made a profit of $151,200 from films and its 35 European theaters...