Word: boss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government; the party leadership would be immobilized if the Department of Justice should take it into its head to move in on all 50. Said one: "That would be an awful lot of bail to have to put up." It was also better to keep a reserve of bosses under cover. Right out in the open (and one of those under indictment) was 67-year-old William Z. Foster, in-&-out boss of the party since 1923, who was re-elected national chairman...
Rough Campaign. The boss had strung along with ex-Auctioneer Jim McCord, out to get a third term, for Governor. This time, for the first time in 20 years, Crump's support was a liability: all over Tennessee, people had finally become fed up with one-man rule from Memphis. They were also fed up with McCord, mainly because he had jammed a 2% sales tax through the legislature...
Winner Browning had been elected governor (with Crump backing) in 1936, was overthrown two years later-when Boss Crump found him too "independent." He had piled up an impressive record in World War II and he campaigned aggressively. At week's end Browning's lead was more than 54,000 votes...
...never stopped running. A year after he ran into the boss, supercharged Louis Seltzer was city editor of the Press. At 20, having proved that he could hold the job, he quit it to get more experience as a legman and political reporter. (In 1924, covering the Democratic Convention, he got an 18-day scoop on the nomination of John W. Davis.) He knew his town like a well-thumbed diary when he became the Press's editor at 30. He also well remembered Founder Scripps's publishing maxim: "Stay close to the people...
Last week, Baldwin Locomotive got a waking & shaking up. The shaker was Westinghouse Electric Co., which bought working control (21%) of Baldwin. Out as Baldwin's boss went 60-year-old President Ralph Kelly. In as executive vice president and operating boss went Westinghouse's longtime chief engineer, Texas-born Marvin W. Smith, 54. Smith's big job is to put Baldwin back into the running for a share of the booming diesel-electric locomotive market...