Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pyongyang, capital of Soviet-occupied North Korea, there was an eye-filling parade last week. Leathery, sharp-eyed Kim II Sung, puppet boss of Korean Communists, reviewed the new Soviet-supplied North Korea People's Army. Citizens were summoned to attend. They shivered in subfreezing weather, shouting "Mansyeh!" (Long Life) as infantry, mounted machine guns, mortars and field guns swept past. Fighter planes with the Taikeuk (Korean national flag) droned overhead, dropping roses. All these fascinating weapons were not of Korean manufacture. Marveled the North Korea radio : "Equipment . . . Korean people have never seen before and do not even know...
...Straight didn't want to fire anybody he'd had lunch with," said one staffer. Others complained that the boss kept changing his mind, kept nibbling away at his editors' powers. Said Edd Johnson: "The place was being run like a charity tea, with me as the caterer...
...Washington, when he found that the Trib's White House man never asked President Roosevelt a question unless the head office prompted it, Andrews transferred the man. Other staffers got the idea: the new boss liked people with plenty of natural curiosity. A faithful front-row attendant at presidential press conferences, Andrews has angered Harry Truman, as he did F.D.R., with his probing inquiries, but won respect and friendship...
Last week, President Truman fired Dr. Parran from his top job (he remains in the PHS) without even the usual polite little note of farewell. Washington speculated on the reason. Federal Security Boss Oscar R. Ewing, whose agency controls PHS, explained that Dr. Parran's re-appointment for another four-year term (his fourth) would have made his tenure too long.* Politicians suspected that Parran, who had been New York health commissioner under Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, was just one more New Dealer dealt out. Medical experts thought that Parran's leaving, among other things, represented a shift...
...viewpoint on night working is Cambridge tax-driver Bill Maddox, who asserts "I want to get away from my wife. That's why I work nights. I'd rather work ten hours a night and spend the day in bed, because it gives me a chance to be my boss...