Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Citibank's great postwar expansionist, picked the young Wriston to direct the important European operation. Wriston was so successful that within three years he was heading the bank's entire foreign operations. From then on, there was little doubt that the brash young Wriston would some day boss the bank...
...support is already extremely powerful. Big labor wants him. So do many Congressmen and Governors. Even some of the liberals who showed contempt for him in 1968 and 1972 now point out carefully that they never were really comfortable being against him. He has renewed his ties to Chicago Boss Richard Daley. "People are happy to see me wherever I go," he says. "I've never had it this way before." He seems almost incredulous as he adds: "They...
...Communists should formalize their tacit support of the government. Reason: it would fuel voter fears that the Christian Democrats were on the verge of accepting the compromesso stbrico-"the historic compromise" in which the Communists would come into government as partners of the Christian Democrats. Meanwhile, Communist Party Boss Berlinguer thinks that a public embrace would be premature, and perhaps might invite a right-wing backlash...
...daunted Kevin Cash, 49, a Manchester native who has worked as a reporter and rewrite man at one time or another on a dozen or so newspapers, including Loeb's own Union Leader. Cash has written and published a devastating 472-page biography of his old boss entitled Who the Hell IS William Loeb?(Amoskeag Press, $8.95; paperbound...
Leaked Evidence. The investigation in question centers around the selling of judgeships and other political favors. According to Nadjari's office, one possible target of the inquiry being conducted by a grand jury was Bronx Democratic Boss Patrick J. Cunningham, whom Carey appointed state Democratic chairman in 1974. Nadjari also claimed that "critical evidence growing out of investigations into corrupt judges, public officials, elected officials and politicians" was leaked in recent weeks to "a political leader" by someone outside his office...