Word: bosse
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...high "Commission," the Chicago local had some months before excluded him from all its activities, believing that the investigations he had inspired had crimped Mob business in Chicago. The gang-slaying theory was lent credence by a shadowy report that on hearing of the shooting, the Mafia's Boss of Bosses, New York's Carlo Gambino, promptly passed word that Giancana's killer was to be executed-again a frequent Mafia precaution after a major...
...more philosophical moments, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has pondered his new boss in the international setting. He fits him into the company-if not yet, of course, the stature-of Harry Truman and Pope John, men elevated to power because they were perceived to be plain, calm and safe...
...mild earthquake shake Lisbon one morning last week? "It was caused," according to a local joke, "by the general putting his big foot down on the political parties." The officer in question was General Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, the tough, outspoken boss of the military security force, and the earthquake occurred just as he was making his way to a special assembly of the ruling Armed Forces Movement (M.F.A.). There was only one solution to the party bickering that was "causing division and making the people suffer," declared the general, expressing a view that is increasingly accepted as the Armed...
...ever accorded a President-lower even than Nixon's 24%. In fact, Harry Truman's entire career was riddled with paradox and contradiction. Although he was so scrupulous that even in the White House he used his own stamps on personal letters, Truman was the product of Boss Pendergast's corrupt Kansas City machine. His senatorial career, distinguished by wartime investigations of defense production, was nearly ended by Franklin D. Roosevelt's lack of confidence. F.D.R., who thought the Missouri Senator could not be reelected, tried to persuade Truman to retire. He refused, won another term...
Other optimistic predictions came at week's end from Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Alan Greenspan and Budget Boss James Lynn, who presented an Administration updating of the forecasts that President Ford made when he unveiled his budget in February. Once again they conceded that the recession has been worse than they anticipated; for instance, they now expect unemployment to average 8.7% this year, v. an 8.1% average projected earlier (Greenspan said the rate is likely to rise for May and that it will top 9% before it gets better). But they also predicted a stronger recovery after midyear...