Word: boss
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Where did the information go? She was sure it went to Russia, via Golos and his friends at Communist headquarters in Manhattan. After Golos died, she frequently saw Earl Browder, then the boss of the U.S. Communist Party, and showed him her political information. But her military information, she said, was turned over directly to "the real Russians." Sometimes she and some of her Washington contacts met at the Manhattan apartment of John Abt, onetime Government employee, now a moving spirit in Henry Wallace's Progressive Party (see Third Parties...
...damnable piece of impertinence -Cripps at his blasted governessing again," said an industrialist, sipping his Pimm's No. 1 on the terrace of Pall Mall's Royal Automobile Club. In London last week there was thunder from both left and right when Britain's economic boss, Sir Stafford Cripps, announced that he had asked for American advice on how to increase British production...
Died. Elmer Lincoln Irey, 60, founder and longtime boss of the U.S. Treasury's sleuthing T-men, nemesis of such bigtime racketeers as Al Capone and Waxey Gordon; of coronary thrombosis; in Shady Side, Md. Promoted to chief coordinator of all Treasury law-enforcement units in 1937, he retired in 1946, collaborated on the Hollywood production...
Coalman. Railroad Juggler Robert R. Young juggled his high command. To run the coal-hauling Chesapeake & Ohio while President Robert J. Bowman is on sick leave, the board named a coalman, Walter J. Tuohy, 47, as first vice president. A graduate of De Paul University, Tuohy was boss of Chicago's Globe Coal Co. when he joined the C. & O. in 1943 as vice president in charge of coal operations. Still unfilled was the vacancy left by Financial Vice President William H. Wenneman, who resigned because "too many [C. & O.] activities have been undertaken for the sole purpose...
...Pshaw, it's only four years. I can stand anything for four years," said Henrietta Nesbitt when she became housekeeper of the White House in 1933. But Mrs. Nesbitt, who was "pushing 60" when she became "First Housekeeper of the Land," stayed in office, like her boss, for 13 years. Unlike the memoirs of other members of President Roosevelt's entourage, her diary of those years has no political importance whatever-for the simple reason that Mrs. Nesbitt was much too busy feeding the politicians to bite off more than she could chew herself. Nonetheless, her prattling, naive...