Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scotch corruption not only in New York but elsewhere. He railed at Governor Tom Dewey for not investigating Mayor Bill O'Dwyer's administration. He trotted down to City Hall with ten questions for O'Dwyer. Their substance: Is Slot Machine Tycoon Frankie Costello the real boss of New York City...
...Extravagant Wife. Sir Stafford Cripps, Britain's brilliant economic boss, was on hand for the OEEC talks. The U.S. Marshall Planners had told the European nations to get their financial houses in order, and Britain, once threatened with collapse, had done this better than any other. For this success, Sir Stafford praised his own brand of austerity, a controlled system of trade which combined high exports with low imports of consumer goods...
...soured early and permanently on the idea of opportunity in a capitalist society. A former boss of his remembers Bevan as a young miner in the Welsh seams. "He was a bad little brat," that man recalls. "He'd lie down right there beside the tubs rather than do one stroke over what was absolutely necessary to earn his minimum wage. Aroused other lads to do the same. 'Why should we sweat our guts out to fill capitalist bellies?' he'd say. You could do nothing with...
...determined to get to the root of the trouble. The League disavowed any intention of strikebreaking, but its sponsor, the Board of Trade, bought a full page in the Paris weekly Star (circ. 1,700) to attack the union leadership as Communist. The League recalled that Kent Rowley, Canadian boss of the United Textile Workers, was interned under the defense-of-Canada regulations in 1940 and released in 1942. Although the Paris local's bylaws called for a two-thirds vote before a strike could be called, Rowley's office had authorized the Paris strike on the slim...
...Willard C. Rappleye, dean of the faculty of medicine, able and genial boss of Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons for the past 18 years, to become vice president in charge of medical affairs. ¶ Paul H. Davis, general secretary of Stanford University, until he took the same title at Columbia in 1946. As vice president in charge of development, he will be the university's top planner and coordinator of new educational projects...