Word: boss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Klein as their candidate for Manhattan surrogate, a job rich in patronage and rife with possibilities of scandal (see THE LAW). In the course of ten years on the State Supreme Court, Democrat Klein, 61, had earned a sound judicial reputation, and as frequently happens in New York, Tammany Boss J. Raymond ("the Fox") Jones and his Republican counterpart agreed to make the judicial nomination bipartisan. Such pacts were originally justified by the argument that they freed judgeships from domination by one party or party boss. On a practical basis, they also gave both parties a share of the patronage...
...efficiency. The Senator, when not in Africa, campaigned happily up and down the sidewalks of New York with a dazed-looking Silverman in tow. In a ludicrous attempt to offset Bobby's righteous rhetoric and familial charisma, the opposition made the wild charge that Kennedy opposed Klein because Boss Jones is a Negro. Neither this nor the more reasonable argument that Kennedy had entered the fight merely to increase his influence got very far. The vote last week was 70,771 for Silverman to 47,625 for Klein...
...only worry is over the day the boss might bark: "You're fired! Turn in your clothes!" Fidelity has thought of that. An employee who stays on for a year can keep his uniform on leaving. Except for the crest. The code says that the crest must be surrendered. But it won't be easy, turning in that good old golden...
Credit the Boss. St. Pete Timesmen cover a geriatric city, but they need their youth to keep up with the paper's tradition of aggressive, investigative reporting. The paper won a 1964 Pulitzer Prize for its scandal-packed report on a Florida turnpike boondoggle; most recently, it took out after Governor Haydon Burns with stories attacking him for nepotism and doing questionable favors for an insurance man. The Times's crusade helped defeat Burns's re-election bid in the May primary...
Britain is fighting another battle these days, a struggle to pay its way in the competitive world economy. The country is getting scant help from the British workingman, who too often thinks that the only fight he has to wage is the battle against his boss. Padded payrolls and plain sloth are slowing production at home, losing business abroad and aggravating the chronic trade deficit and the sterling crisis. Examples...