Word: bossdom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Losing Complacently. In the Republican camp there was smugness of another sort. In a century of highly successful Republican bossdom, just two Democrats had tiptoed into the Statehouse. Since the 1938 debacle of George Earle* and his dazed administration, a succession of Old Guard Republicans had moved, like a procession of pelicans, into the governor's chair, led by Arthur James, whose conservatism extended to his high-button shoes. In 1946 it came the turn of James Duff, a bristle-thatched bird of another feather. Midway in his term, Duff led a coup d'état against Boss...