Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days before election, Communist Boss Gildo Gasperoni produced his trump card. "We expect to bring home 197 Sammarinesi from Genoa, another four or five hundred from the rest of Italy, and 130 who went to France as coal miners. That ought to be enough to swing the election, I think." On election day the expatriates came home with all expenses paid by the Communist-Socialist coalition...
...speeches had all the flavor of the old oligarch-baiting times. Without bothering to offer proof, Perón's Transport Minister proclaimed that the railways (reported last month to be losing money at the rate of $100 million a year) were now in the black. The boss of the railway unions rose to shout: "If at any time it becomes necessary, the workers will rise and fight in the streets in defense of General Perón and Comrade Evita...
Died. S. (for Samuel) Clay Williams, 64, longtime chairman of the board of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels), successor to General Hugh S. Johnson as boss of NRA; of a heart attack; in Winston-Salem...
Stand Pat. There seemed small chance of anyone else following G.M.'s lead on prices. Said Ford Sales Boss Jack Davis: "We are not reducing the prices of our cars, because of the current high level of wage and material costs." Ford's three-passenger business coupe, now selling at $1,158, is still well under Chevrolet's cheapest at $1,260 and Plymouth...
...Army sent him to Persia, as a colonel, to unsnarl the rail shipments of U.S. material to the Soviet Union. He did so well that General Eisenhower brought him to England as assistant supply boss for the Normandy invasion, later put him in charge of the First Military Railway Service in France. At war's end, Stoddard quickly moved up to U.P.'s general manager. Last week, when President George F. Ashby retired at 63, U.P.'s Chairman E. Roland Harriman and his fellow directors named Stoddard president...