Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...labor agents who peddled the Communist line "goddam traitors," and kicked Harvard-bred Lee Pressman, a notorious Communist-liner, out of the job of C.I.O. counsel. From that point on, Phil Murray grew bolder. Some believe that he even helped push that old bibber of Red propaganda, Michael Quill, boss of the transport workers, into taking the pledge...
When a brash minority objected to a C.I.O. endorsement of the Marshall Plan, Murray let fly at them. The dissenters included James Durkin, boss of the office workers' union, Donald Henderson, boss of the tobacco workers, and Abe Feinglass, an officer of the fur workers. "I do not say that everyone who is opposed to the Marshall Plan is a Communist," said Murray, "but I do say that every Communist is opposed to the Marshall Plan...
...room and the A.F.L. longshoremen in another. For the better part of the night Ching's aides shuttled from the weary group of operators, presided over by New York Shipping Association Chairman John V. Lyon, to the grim group of 125 labor delegates, presided over by Longshore Boss Joseph P. Ryan. Around 3 a.m., the operators gave...
Twenty years ago a cocky youngster named Clement George McCullagh quit his job as assistant financial editor on the old Toronto Globe, to get into the million-dollar deals that he had been writing about on Toronto's Bay Street. His boss warned him against it, but McCullagh's mind was made up. "The next time I come in," he boasted, "I'll be buying this newspaper out from under...
...time of corporate, impersonal journalism, doughty old John Netherland Heiskell is a holdout. The lean and gimlet-eyed boss of Little Rock's Arkansas Gazette snorts at the notion that a newspaper is just a 6% investment: it is first of all an institution, says he, and only incidentally a business. Because his paper is a great success in both roles, numerous buyers have greedily eyed it. Heiskell has always talked to them as sternly as if they were asking for the hand of one of his two daughters...