Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...signed a bill creating a $10,000 post, Under Secretary of Defense, for his chief administrative assistant. But armed-services committees in both houses of Congress and their gold-braided pals in the armed forces were still balking at bills which would make the Secretary of Defense the absolute boss of the services as well as their titular head...
...center of the excitement was the delegation from Russia and the Iron Curtain countries of Europe. Their boss and director was ruddy, narrow-eyed Alexander Fadeev, political boss of Soviet writers, who is reputed to be an MVD official assigned to the part of an intellectual in search of peace. Their showpiece-and the only visitor of major stature-was Composer Dmitri Shostakovich. A shy, stiff-shouldered man with a pale, wide forehead, Shostakovich was painfully ill at ease. To the repeated ovations he received he ducked his head abruptly again & again, like a small boy after a commencement speech...
...reaction came quickly. From Peiping, instead of its former station in north Shensi, the Red radio* crowed that Communist Boss Mao Tse-tung, his secretariat and the party's Central Committee had moved to China's ancient cultural capital. Peiping had officially become Communist China's No. 1 city. Here, the voice of Red China continued, five Communist leaders would meet on April 1 to discuss peace terms with the Nationalists...
...Stanley Marcus, balding boss of the Dallas-in-Wonderland Nieman-Marcus specialty shop (its specialty is selling chichi clothes to rich Texans), went the Chevalier Award of the French Legion of Honor, for "eminent services to the cause of French industrial and commercial recovery...
State of the Cinema. For Boss Jack Warner, the triumph was edged with irony. It was no secret that Warner had allowed Johnny Belinda to be made only over his protests and that he had parted company with its director, Jean Negulesco, when the picture was finished. It was also well known that Warner had thoroughly disliked Treasure of the Sierra Madre, had held up its release and later parted company with Director Huston. At the presentation, Jack Warner had to listen to a pointed slight in Huston's acceptance speech: "If this [the Oscar] were hollow...