Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turn loose their bookies, loaded-dice men, six-forfive boys, and kickback collectors on the dock-wallopers for nobody knows how many more millions. Proud to Know Ya. The cops, some how, have never bothered them too much. The "hoods" get along fine with Joe Ryan, the loudmouthed lifetime boss (at$20,000 a year) of the A.F.L. International Longshoremen's Association. Some of the hoods hold cards in the union and go to big dinners for Joe. Joe is touched by this: "Some of the boys from the old ladies' home up the river [i.e., Sing Sing...
...Togliatti: "As to the hypothesis that the Russian army would pursue on our territory an aggressor, I think that Italian people....would have the evident duty to aid in the most efficient way the Soviet army, in order to give that aggressor the lesson he deserves" In Britain, Communist Boss Harry Pollitt threatened sabotage in case of war with the Soviet Union...
...leaders of local unions blasted the Socialists with familiar Moscow invective: "Betrayers! Opportunists! Careerists!" then announced they would go ahead with the strike. Boss Narain promptly expelled the Communist locals from his federation...
Major General William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan, wartime boss of the OSS, announced in Los Angeles: "It's not a cold war. It's a damn...
Despite bad-tempered outbursts, Bing has usually shown a notable ability to get along with the boss. When John S. Knight bought the Free Press in 1940, he took control of the news columns away from Bingay, left him in charge only of the editorial page. Nevertheless, writes Bing solemnly: "John S. Knight [is] in my book the best of all publishers...