Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harry Truman do it? His motives were not too obscure. Eccles' term on the board ran to 1958, but his chairmanship was about to expire (Feb. 1). The small, greying boss of FRB had become increasingly irritating to Mr. Truman. Eccles had disagreed with Treasury Secretary Snyder on how to handle inflation. With his recommendations for tighter Government controls of banks and financing, he had stirred up the bankers and brokers. He was always treading on toes. He had also been spotted paying occasional visits to Senator Bob Taft. The ax fell...
...Moscow's wary, cautious eye, Bulgaria's ambitious Premier and ex-Comintern Boss Georgi Dimitrov and Yugoslavia's restless, bellicose Marshal Tito were pedaling too far and too fast...
...Managua's sun-baked plaza, cadets from the military academy paraded one day last week in spotless white uniforms. Bands tooted the national anthem and the drums beat out a salute as President Victor Roman y Reyes and his boss and nephew, General Anastasio Somoza, drove down from their hilltop palaces in bulletproof sedans...
Joseph H. Axelrod, 31, was one of the first New Englanders to have a telephone in his automobile. He needed it. As boss of six textile mills in four cities in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, plump, hustling Joe Axelrod made the rounds every day, and he liked to keep in touch. Last week, Joe Axelrod added a fifth city (Providence) to his tour, a seventh plant (the Damar Wool Combing Co.) to his holdings. Even for a young man who likes to keep moving, Axelrod had moved far. In 9½ years he had parlayed $5,500 into an integrated...
...Union. Does he read his own newspapers? Do the Soviet papers dispense soothing syrups? If Hearst is wrong, the New York Times or the Washington Post or someone else will correct it. But who corrects Pravda?" Jacob Lomakin said nothing. For Pravda and Lomakin take orders from the same boss...