Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through Illinois by Bus. A man with a memory like Jim Farley's, easygoing Bill Boyle knows thousands of wardheelers by their first names. He saw to it that the boss shook the hands and slapped the backs of as many of them as possible. His biggest coup of the campaign: routing Truman by bus and car through five downstate Illinois counties that had not gone Democratic in 50 years. Truman carried them all, took the state...
...Boyle. Like Harry Truman, he was a product of Kansas City's old Pendergast machine. At 16, he was ringing doorbells in the old Fourth (Silk Stocking) Ward in Kansas City, later became leader there, entered the law. He was a police-department secretary in 1939 when his boss followed old Tom Pendergast to jail. Boyle took over the police department for a few months, won the praise even of the opposition for his administration...
...boss of the small Akron, Canton & Youngstown Railroad, Harry Bartlett Stewart Jr., 44, had spent half his life shipping coal. But Bart Stewart thought there was a better way to do it than by train. Last week, he formed a company to build the longest conveyor belt in the world to haul coal and ore. It would stretch from Lorain on Lake Erie for 103 miles south to East Liverpool on the Ohio, with branch belts to Cleveland and Youngstown...
...boss faced a stiff test; above all things he had to keep Plan E off the ballot-he couldn't take a chance on its slipping by. It not only replaces the Mayor with a council-appointed city manager; it goes on to specify that members of the Council be elected by proportional representation. This means that each citizen would vote on all Council seats, numbering his choices among the candidates in order of preference. Thus the plan wipes out the ward system, the basis for the machine; Curley's power would be sharply narrowed at the bottom, where...
...single election; that plan getting the required petition signatures first gets on the ballot to the exclusion of all others. Curley made the most of the situation. The battle shaped up between backers of Plan A, supporters of Plan E and a smaller group behind Plan D. The boss, although stating emphatically that he wanted no change, finally put his organization behind Plan A; it's the least of three evils so far as he is concerned. Plan A provides for a strong Mayor and doesn't have the unpleasant proportional representation rider attached, although it does out the Council...