Word: boss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even for Tennessee, the campaign was rough. Boss Crump alienated countless voters by his unrestrained use of invective. He spent $18,000 a day for huge newspaper ads to revile Browning and Kefauver. He repeated old slurs on Browning ("Of the 206 bones in his body, there isn't one that is genuine . . . His heart has beaten over two billion times without a sincere beat"). He called Kefauver an "oxblood Red" and "pet coon." Kefauver turned the attack to his own advantage by donning a coonskin cap and invading the boss's own Shelby County (Memphis) five times...
With the Folks. Two days after the primary, Boss Crump permitted himself to be interviewed by bellowing down answers from his second-floor bedroom window. Would he attempt a comeback...
...Comeback?" said the Boss. "I haven't gone anywhere. When a fellow's still at home, that's with his home folks, that's satisfying. As long as a fellow can go along with the folks that have known him all these years . . . he's not going anywhere. I have been elected 26 times without being defeated. I have assisted others 87 times without defeat. Altogether, 110 times in 45½ years. Why should I come back? Any man who hasn't got enough to take a defeat is a poor...
Affectionate Tone. But General Eichelberger's real triumph lay in his dealings with the Japanese people as boss of the occupation forces. At first the Japanese had feared him as a tough soldier who would probably be a hard-heeled conqueror. He showed that he could be firm; he also showed them that he was going to be fair...
...Astor worked in a Glasgow factory and a London bank before becoming a junior reporter on the Yorkshire Post. In 1945, demobbed as a captain in the Royal Marines (with the Croix de Guerre), Astor joined the family's Observer as foreign editor. He is a hard-working boss, on a first-name basis with most of his staffers...