Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Roberts is No. 1 citizen, but he is by no means Kansas City's boss. His position is unique in big-town journalism and politics. He never gives an order, has asked only one favor of the city administration in eight years (one of "the Senator's" friends needed a job). His great power is the Star. He can sit back, dictate an editorial or work up a story that will get the things done. Big Roy is the easiest man to see in town. To his desk every day come a steady stream of citizens to tell...
...Roberts lives in Kansas on account of Old Tom Pendergast. The boss's assessors, by upping tax valuations, had made it tough on the Star's wealthy executives to own property on the Missouri side...
...anti-Communist Sicily, many Reds, fellow travelers and some innocent labor leaders had been ambushed and killed. Last month, an obscure village labor organizer called Placido Rizzotto disappeared. Last week, Communist Labor Boss Di Vittorio chose to make a national issue of Rizzotto, threatened a general strike unless he turned up by this week...
There were some signs that the Communists had lost ground. One day last week at Lecce, when Red Boss Palmiro Togliatti denounced the Marshall Plan, he was booed into silence. In a sudden bullish mood, the Rome stockmarket rose higher than it had been in three months. At Gorizia, a crowd of 1,000 Italians broke up a Communist meeting, then stormed toward the nearby Yugoslav border shouting: "Long Live America, Death to Tito!" Frontier guards had to squash the impromptu invasion. Customs officials discovered a cargo of 8,000 guns, 4,000 cases of ammunition and one Communist agitator...
...Professor V. N. Kolbanovsky, said: "Ugly psychological leftovers of bourgeois ideology concerning marriage and love still exist here. . . . Bourgeois marriages are business marriages where love gets dirtied and trampled. ... In bourgeois countries the working girl, in order to get and hold a job, often has to pass through the boss's bed. ... In the bourgeois state children are not wanted in great numbers...