Word: boss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Says New York Printers' boss Bert Powers: "Somebody has convinced the membership that a union is like a tollgate and that all it does is collect dues. There isn't the feeling there used to be for the whole labor movement. Our own printers aren't interested in how the cab Drivers are being organized. A picket line is an annoyance...
...preacher, author, prude. Kwame Nkrumah has been them all in his long career, but you can't keep a good man down. Two years ago, as a letter or two of praise poured in for his latest published theories on African socialism, the Osagyefo (Redeemer) made himself permanent boss of his country. Apparently he found that he was not busy enough, for last week, at 55, Nkrumah began yet another career. Hearing rumors that two generals were gossiping about him, he decided that his army needed new leadership, began casting around for a new commanding officer. It didn...
Jacques marries Viviane and now proceeds to go AWOL from the world around him. He abruptly leaves the wedding party given by his boss. Fired for his rudeness, he begins to spend his days wandering contentedly by himself. He gazes at things for hours until they lose their conventional reality-an effect brilliantly conveyed by a surrealistic camera that converts a slice of bread into a mysterious mass of caverns, an iron lamp base into a writhing monster...
Died. Jan Antonin Bata, 67, Czech-born "world shoe king" when he was boss (1932-39) of the sprawling (now 80 plants in 67 countries), well-heeled (annual sales: some $400 million) producer of cheap shoes founded by Half Brother Thomas, but who in 1962 was relegated to an outpost in Brazil after Nephew Thomas Jr. of Canada's Bata, Ltd., won control of the family empire in a spectacular court fight; of a heart attack; in São Paulo, Brazil...
...fresh from wartime duty as a lawyer in the Navy (where he worked with a fellow lieutenant named Richard Nixon). Hired as assistant to President Ralph Reed, Clark watched and learned the business over Reed's shoulder, developed a strong group of young executives, succeeded his boss in 1960. He promptly began reorganizing American Express, giving existing divisions more autonomy and, most important, spreading the company into many new fields...