Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Situation: Precarious. The talk easily turned to politics. The President admitted that Bronx Boss Ed Flynn and New York State Democratic Chairman Paul Fitzpatrick had paid a super-secret call to discuss the New York political situation, and insisted that they had left happy. Reporters learned later that Flynn had shown the President an advance copy of a resolution he introduced at a meeting of New York's convention delegates, in which Truman's domestic policy was praised and his Palestine policy damned. The delegates themselves were uninstructed; the New York situation was unsettled at best...
...Washington, ECA's boss Paul Hoffman continued energetically taking his first quick EGA steps. He made an official appointment. He named Dr. Dennis A. FitzGerald, gaunt, able director of the Department of Agriculture's Office of Foreign Agricultural Relations, as chief of ECA's food division. "He's probably the greatest authority on food procurement and distribution in the world," Hoffman said. FitzGerald came to Washington 13 years ago from Iowa State College...
...Warren Burger, 40, a husky, handsome St. Paul lawyer who is Stassen's chief of staff. An idea man with tremendous drive, he runs the national headquarters in Minneapolis, makes all but major policy decisions for the boss...
Isacson recently overthrew Boss Flynn's machine to win a special Congressional election in the Bronx...
Rector Bydzovsky gave Boss Nejedly an honorary doctorate of education-the first ever awarded in Czechoslovakia. Nine Russians got degrees too, but Columbia's John Dewey and Oxford's Sir David Ross, who had been offered degrees, stayed home...