Word: boss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Without Honor. Philadelphia Congressman William Green, at 29 youngest member of the House and youngest political boss in the U.S., walked through his Fifth District to sample opinion among its many ethnic groups. Green, whose father, the late Representative Bill Green, ran the Philadelphia Democratic City Committee before him, said he found "a hunger for peace in Viet Nam." Yet virtually none of his constituents favored U.S. withdrawal, and many complained that Johnson had not acted firmly enough in seeking return of the Pueblo...
...Department of Housing and Urban Development decided to back ABAG's cooperative philosophy, named the embryonic outfit its regional planning agency and showered it with lucre. All told, HUD gave ABAC $1,080,000, sending checks in plain brown envelopes without prior notice, according to Truax's boss, ABAG Executive Director Warren Schmidt. For the past 13 months, Truax apparently had been treating the brown-paper bonanza as personal mail. Investigators said that he had deposited the checks-including one for $399,649-in bank accounts under various names. In Las Vegas, he was known as Troy Thompson...
...PRESIDENCY Memories of Uncle Lyndon Working from a lode of salvaged notes and firsthand memoranda, Evelyn Lincoln assembled a 1965 memoir, My Twelve Years with John F. Kennedy, that gave readers a faithful slavey's-eye view of the boss she loved and served as personal secretary. Her second installment, Kennedy & Johnson, about to be published by Holt, Rinehart & Winston, wastes little love on J.F.K.'s succes sor. Her book's opening description of L.B.J., in Florida at their first meeting after the 1960 election, speaks of him as "Heavy. Heavy footsteps. Heavy body. Heavy, slow-moving...
Blocked Promotion. The record clearly belongs to Bunkie* Knudsen, 55. After 29 years as a G.M. executive, he was earning some $481,000 a year as boss of domestic nonauto and all over seas operations. But he was keenly disappointed at his failure to win G.M.'s presidency last fall. Instead, his only obvious rival, Edward N. Cole, 58, won the job that Knudsen had coveted and courted for most of his life. Cole's ascension meant not only that Knudsen's road to promotion was blocked for at least another four years; it also meant that...
...Knudsen worked for 106 G.M. plants before, at 43, he was made boss of the drooping Pontiac Division. His first move was to order styling changes on the 1957 model to rid Pontiac of its "grandma" image-something that few automen would have dared just 60 days away from volume production. Off came two pieces of chrome across the hood and trunk lid-no matter that his fa ther had introduced them in 1935. Next, Knudsen reached for what the youth of the day wanted. He brought out a 21 in. wider and flashier model to appeal to young drivers...