Word: boss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...night of last Jan. 11, McKeon summoned six other Democratic state officials to a meeting in the manager's suite of Albany's DeWitt Clinton Hotel. Present besides McKeon were Nassau County Leader John English; Schenectady County Leader George Palmer; Joseph Crangle, subbing for Erie County Boss Peter J. Crotty; J. Raymond Jones, Negro chief of New York City's Tammany Hall; Queen's County Assemblyman Moses Weinstein, and New York City Election Commissioner Maurice J. O'Rourke...
...congratulate you on your thrilling and complete victory. Not since the New York Times' expose of Boss Tweed has any newspaper crusade been so unqualifiedly successful as your defeat of the HCUA. Others who consider that student government at Harvard is a waste of precious time have ignored it, but they are a lesser breed than you. Hardly has a day gone by when your courageous pages have not declared to all the world that the HCUA is a joke! Less dedicated editors might have been tempted to cooperate with University officials and "student leaders" in drawing up plans...
...package over four years. Education was at the heart of the matter, since the longshoremen had first turned down the new contract without really knowing what it was all about, gone on strike, and decided to approve the contract in a new vote only after International Longshoremen's Boss Teddy Gleason launched an educational campaign to convince them that it was the best ever...
...thrust into Europe has been engineered by its expansion-minded Executive Vice President James M. Roche, 58. One of four G.M. executive veeps, Roche is the boss of all overseas operations, has allocated $400 million of the company's two-year, $2 billion capital-spending program to European ventures. From Detroit, he has also directed Opel in its challenge to Volkswagen's leadership in West Germany. Even without the proposed Antwerp plant, G.M.'s Opel and Vauxhall models have cornered 13% of Europe's 7,000,000-car market...
...M.I.T. chairman gets more than $360,000 in a moderately good year, plus another $200,000 for doubling as boss of the sister fund, Massachusetts Investors Growth Stock Fund. (Though generous, this is still well below General Motors Chairman. Frederic Donner, who made $800,000 in 1964.) Starting soon, the huge M.I.T. check will be made out in the name of a new man. Last week the fund announced that Kenneth L. Isaacs, 60, M.I.T.'s vice chairman for the past eleven years, will succeed Dwight P. Robinson Jr., 65, as board chairman...