Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Scollay Square saloon, is a battered vessel. It was severely dented last November when Mayor James Michael Curley, a man with a mountainous contempt for public opinion, returned happily to his $20,000-a-year job after spending five months in prison for mail fraud. Since then, Boss Curley has given the vessel a few more kicks...
...good share of the A.C.S. research money will go to the new Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (TIME, Nov. 3). Its new, 14-story, $4,000,000 building, on Manhattan's East Side, financed by General Motors' Alfred P. Sloan Jr. and Charles F. ("Boss") Kettering, was formally opened by the donors one day last week...
...succeeded Robert M. Hutchins in the job almost three years ago. Hutchins stepped up to the specially created post of chancellor, which makes him still boss...
Reopened Door. After months of negotiations Cities Service Co., and Antonio Bermudez, boss of Mexico's government-owned oil monopoly Pemex, signed a historic agreement in Mexico City. The deal brought a major U.S. oil company into Mexican oil development for the first time since 1938, when expropriation drove most foreign companies out. Under the deal Cities Service will set up a Mexican subsidiary (Mexico-Cities Service Petroleum Corp.) to provide the capital, and presumably the machinery and technical help, for Pemex's development of a million-acre tract in northeastern Mexico...
Robbins Is Boss...