Word: bossed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Congressman Kent of California delivered yesterday the last of the series of lectures on the Progressive Movement, his subject being, "Leadership as Opposed to Boss Rule...
Causes of Boss Rule...
...governmental checks and balances and provided a system of selection of officials which shows their distrust of the people. The elaborate processes by which officials were chosen and the survival of parties after their purpose had been accomplished, these together with the spoils system caused the growth of boss rule. The direct primary, the referendum, the recall and the initiative are all successive steps in eliminating the boss from politics and bringing the government under direct control of the people. Likewise the commission form of city government does away with machinery and increases efficiency without lessening popular control over governmental...
...William Kent, national congressman from California will give the next lecture in the series on the Progressive Movement. His topic will be "Leadership as a Substitute for Boss-rule". The lecture will be held in Room D of Emerson Hall tomorrow afternoon at 4.30 o'clock, and it will be open to members of the University...
Edward Sheldon '08, already well known for his "Salvation Nell," "The Nigger," and "The Boss," was last night called upon to bow his thanks at the Plymouth for the hearty reception given his latest play "The Princess Zim-Zim." Although the program labels this piece very simply as "a new play" it might well be called a semi-tragic comedy of realism: a first act of pure and unusually delightful comedy, a second and third of good melo-drama, and finally an epilogue that makes appeals by way of its persistence in sticking to facts, as ordinarily experienced...