Word: boss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unionists within his party. They argued that the whole labor movement would die if unions no longer had the right to bargain for higher wages. Six hundred auto workers massed outside Wilson's hotel in Brighton. "Wilson, you traitor!" they shouted. Inside the Labor conference, Frank Cousins, the boss of Britain's biggest union, the Transport and General Workers, fumed defiance. "We shall now be in conflict with the law," he declared. "Because when the law is unfair, trade unionists since time immemorial have opposed...
...Queens, when New York's finest burst into the joint to bust up what the Queens D.A. called a meeting even "bigger than Apalachin" of top Cosa Nostra hoodlums from New York, Florida and Louisiana. It did look like a summit at that: Santo ("Louis Santos") Trafficante, 51, boss of Cuba's pre-Castro gambling, Thomas ("Tommy Ryan") Eboli, 55, running...
...made the term famous, and now Yankee Baseball Announcer Red Barber, 58, was all tangled up in a rhubarb himself. No sooner was the Yanks' new boss, CBS Vice President Michael Burke, in office than he fired Barber, who had reported Yankee games for 13 years. Reason? None that Burke cared to announce, except that it was part of a general shakeup. Red thought it might have had something to do with the recent night when the Yanks played to exactly 413 paying fans, and he suggested that the cameras pass around so the TV audience could count...
...William Haley, 65, the Times's austere, scholarly editor since 1952, will move up to board chairman; the editor in chief of both the daily and Sunday editions will be Thomson's man, Denis Hamilton, 47, a brilliant, tough-minded journalist who has never feared the boss. In five years as editor of the Sunday Times, Hamilton has doubled circulation by adding a much-imitated color supplement and greatly improving the paper's parliamentary, foreign and cultural coverage-all superior to the daily Times...
...proposed a "radio music box," predicted it would bring music, lectures and reports of national events into the American living room. In the confusion of World War I, Sarnoff's memo had been pigeonholed. Now he dug it out, showed it to Owen Young. Sarnoff's boss was enthusiastic, but the RCA board would agree to put up only $2,000-which Sarnoff spent to transmit a broadcast of the Dempsey-Carpentier heavyweight championship fight.- Heard by 200,000 wireless enthusiasts, the broadcast caused a sensation, and RCA began developing sets immediately. By 1926, sales had passed...