Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...imposing comprehensive controls that would require an OPA-style army of bureaucrats to enforce. That leaves a totally unprecedented job: putting partial controls on a still wobbly economy at a very late stage of an exceedingly stubborn inflation. In addition, Nixon and many of his advisers, especially Budget Boss George Shultz and Economic Aide Herbert Stein, have in the past shown an ideological horror at any interference with free markets. Casting them as price-control planners, quips Robert Nathan, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists, is "like putting Polly Adler in charge of a convent...
...also a prominent capital host and fund raiser for philanthropic causes. Harry Truman selected him to head the U.S. legation in Dublin in 1947, then promoted him in 1950 when the mission was raised to embassy status. Garrett resigned in 1951, later championed urban redevelopment in Washington as boss of the Federal City Council...
...departure, wrote Wechsler, "would enable President Nixon to replace him with a man more congenial to the mood of this Administration." Three days after that, a rebuke from Publisher Dorothy Schiff appeared in the Post's "Letters to the Editor" column. "You insist," said Wechsler's boss, "that Mr. Black's so far unnamed successor must be 'a man' (italics mine) of stature, dignity and learning. What an opportunity you have given Mr. Nixon to appoint to our highest court a highly qualified woman, thus proving himself to be less of a male chauvinist than...
...than two hours, he was scheduled to present himself at the L.A. Federal Building to begin serving a four-year prison term. The humiliation lay not in the illegality of what he had done, but in its insignificance. As the elder son of the once powerful New York Mafia Boss Joseph ("Joe Bananas") Bonanno, Bill was used to stripping down rolls of hundred-dollar bills to pay for his incidentals. Now he stood convicted of fraudulently using another man's Diners Club card...
...Italian-born father, Joseph, who made headlines in 1964 when he disappeared after two men forced him into a car as he was about to enter his lawyer's New York City apartment building. According to a witness, one of the men said: "C'mon, Joe, my boss wants to see you." Bonanno must have had a long wait in the outer office. Nineteen months later, wearing a tan and the gray silk suit that he vanished in, Joe Bonanno walked unannounced into New York's federal courthouse and, with a straight face, said to a judge...