Word: boss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disturbance was not squelched. Directly under the rostrum, Chicago Boss Jake Arvey and Adlai Stevenson, candidate for governor of Illinois, continued to yell at the chair. California's hulking Chairman Jack Shelley, an ex-University of San Francisco football tackle, plunged up the aisle to the platform, roaring for recognition. They all wanted it to be announced that their delegations had voted against Mississippi. On the platform Shelley barked into the ear of Sergeant at Arms Leslie Biffle: "You'd better not cut the mikes on us tomorrow when we start talking on civil rights...
Antonio Pallante was no workaday, hireling killer; he belonged to the fevered race of political assassins who act alone. In solitude, Antonio Pallante nursed an obsession. The target of his hatred and his plans was suave, astute Palmiro Togliatti, boss of Italy's Communist Party...
...leaders called a general strike which fizzled. When he knew that he was beaten in the effort to make a revolution out of the attack on Togliatti, Communist Labor Boss Giuseppe di Vittorio rose in the Assembly to announce that the Labor Federation had called off the general strike. Interrupted a Christian Democrat: "Because it failed." Crimson with rage, Di Vittorio screamed: "Why do you laugh? What is there to laugh at?" Bedlam broke loose in the Assembly. While a line of ushers kept them from getting at each other, Christian Democrats and Communists hurled pencils and pens at each...
When Horace Stoneham, the Giants' president, asked Ott what the club needed, Mel replied: "Maybe a new manager." Stoneham agreed. At last week's All-Star game in St. Louis,* Mel Ott and his boss secretly called it quits and set out to hire Durocher. But could Leo Durocher be hired...
Lucky Leo. Only a few insiders knew how extremely available Leo was. His trouble dated from the Fourth of July too. That was the day the Dodger road secretary took Leo aside at Ebbets Field and said: "I hate to tell you this, Leo, but the boss [Branch Rickey] wants you to resign." What had he done this time, Leo wanted to know. "Oh, nothing at all," said the boss's emissary, retreating...