Word: boss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...salesmen leave their jobs just because the boss does not take their advice on company policy, but Bernard Cornfeld is no ordinary salesman. Nine years ago, he told his bosses at Manhattan's Investors Planning Corp., a mutual-fund sales firm, that they ought to expand overseas. The bosses said no; Cornfeld quit. He went overseas himself, set up a company that began by selling mutual-fund shares to G.I.s, has since become the largest mutual-fund sales organization outside the U.S. Last week Cornfeld closed a nostalgic deal to get back into the U.S. mutual-fund field...
...this has nicely enriched life for Istanbul-born, Brooklyn-reared Bernie Cornfeld, a mild-mannered bachelor of 37 who does not look as if he would ever talk back to his boss. He drives a Lancia Flaminia convertible, sails a 42-ft. Corsair, owns a ski lodge and a castle in France and lives in a lavish villa in suburban Geneva with two Great Danes and a Chinese houseman. He decorates his penthouse office with red silk Empire furnishings and swarms of attractive, multilingual secretaries, trains and entertains his worldwide force of 2,000 salesmen with everything from art lectures...
...October began to run down. Even though the Newspaper Guild and four other unions had tentatively agreed to accept management's top offer of a $10.50 raise spread over two years, Bert Powers, flinty head of Local 6 of the International Typographical Union, wanted more. And the adamant boss of the "Big Six" was well remembered as the architect of the last strike...
Bargain & Collect. Powers had a reputation to maintain as the newspaper-union boss who could do the most for his men. He called "chapel" meetings of his printers in the composing rooms of the Daily News and the Journal-American at hours neatly chosen to interfere with two editions of both papers. Powers was apparently hoping that the publishers would retaliate by locking the printers out - a move that would save him from the onus of calling a strike. But there was no lockout; the next move was up to Big Six. Then the publishers conceded. They offered Powers...
Aspirin & Cigarettes. A onetime crusading aide to the late Senator Estes Kefauver, Rand Dixon works hard at appearing more reasonable than he used to be. When he became boss in 1961, he scarcely concealed his distrust of big business, often squabbled with his four commissioners. Frustrated by the fights on high and uneasy about the commission's broad and petty swoops on business, many of the brightest young FTC lawyers quit. Dixon did some hard thinking. He fought the morale problem by pushing pay raises and speeding promotions, began to side with staffers more sympathetic to business; recently...