Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Carl Stokes saw himself as the man with the spark two years ago when he ran as an independent candidate against Locher, his former boss. He came within 2,143 votes of winning, and did not let up between elections. This year, Stokes, with the influential support of the Plain Dealer, challenged Locher in the primary. He waged a gentlemanly campaign and mentioned race only to say that his own should not be an issue...
...last-ditch attempt to defeat Gary's Mayoral Candidate Richard Hatcher, the local Democratic machine set out to steal the vote in vintage Tammany Hall style. And the machine under Boss John Krupa, Hatcher's archfoe, was just the outfit to do it. As secretary of the board of election commissioners and the board of canvassers, Krupa dropped from the registration lists the names of 5,286 voters, mostly Negroes. At the same time, hundreds of fictitious registrations were added so that paid impostors could cast ballots against Hatcher. Since his winning margin last week was only...
Lessons from Tito. Touring a Soviet factory, President Josip Broz Tito shocked the Russians accompanying him by extolling progress in Yugoslavia instead of Russia and boasting about "a new phase" of socialism in his country. Rumanian Party Boss Nicolae Ceausescu stayed around in Moscow just long enough to make the point to all who would listen that "Rumanians are masters in their own house"-meaning that they like their new independence from Moscow. Fidel Castro had snubbed the Kremlin by sending Public Health Minister Dr. José Ramón Machado in his place; when the peeved Russians would...
...already has enough trouble." Paul Blazer loaned his nephew $20 for one-way fare to Cleveland, where Rex got a job with Allied Oil Co. By the time that Allied was acquired by Ashland in 1948, Rex Blazer was its president. He succeeded his uncle as Ashland's boss after the older Blazer retired...
...dead, sold control of the frozen-food firm, Seabrook quit as president and joined Butcher. He became president of I.U. in 1965, and of General Waterworks last year. Often his doctoring of acquisitions involves nothing more startling than sending in a financial expert to bail out a sales-minded boss. "A lot of companies are mismanaged by the president because he lacks a good information system," says he. "Then if something goes wrong, he feathers the wrong engine...