Word: boss
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Died. Theodore Giles Montague, 69, president (1937-55) and board chairman (1956-64) of the Borden Co., No. 2 U.S. dairy producer (just after National Dairy Products Corp.), who joined Borden when it bought out his small Wisconsin dairy in 1928, as boss added instant coffee, animal feeds and industrial products, increased sales six times, to $1.5 billion, and built the company's advertising symbol, Elsie, into the most famous cow since Mrs. O'Leary's; of a heart attack; in Greenwich, Conn...
...refer to the Molly McGuires as "a band of Pennsylvania miners who assassinated fellow workers and bosses alike." I wish to advise that as a student of their history and direct descendant of the county delegate of Schuylkill County, at no time did I ever come across any incident of violence attributable to the Molly McGuires where they were known to have assassinated a fellow worker or boss to gain better pay and working conditions per se. Rather, the individuals who were slain had the misfortune at the time to be of Dutch, Welsh, and/or English descent and fell prey...
...helped him out under curious circumstances were asked to explain in court. One government official admitted lending Villegas 30,000 pesos ($7,700) without interest because he was the mayor's compadre. An assistant declared he had given Villegas loans without collateral because he regarded the boss as "my own son." A wealthy Manila businessman testified that he had lent Villegas' wife 15,000 pesos because the mayor "was like a brother to me." With that, Villegas denounced the investigation as an invasion of his family's privacy. The case was dismissed on a technicality, and Villegas...
After Party Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka's decision to break off diplomatic ties with Israel last June at Moscow's behest, there was a modicum of wry truth in a gibe that quickly made the rounds in Warsaw: Tel Aviv was going to retaliate by withdrawing the Polish government. Gomulka, whose wife is Jewish, was not amused. In a scarcely veiled effort to draw on the old well spring of Polish antiSemitism, he charged: "The Israeli aggression on Arab countries has met with applause from Zionist circles of Jews who are Polish citizens and who even gave drinking parties...
...British Steel Corporation, a nationalized giant, last week opened for business after a long and turbulent incubation period. Named to head it was a chap about whom his government boss, Minister of Power Richard Marsh, exulted: "He's first-rate. He's got enormous intelligence, breadth, which enables him to get on with unions and everybody else. He's very dynamic, and he works long hours...