Word: bossed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Francisco Bulletin, Francis J. Heney, who was chosen to conduct the prosecution because of his success in the Oregon land fraud case, and William J. Burns, the well-known detective. Evidence of fraud was traced even to the bankers of the public service corporations. Ruef, the boss, confessed, as did most of the supervisors. Many of the richest men in the state were indicted...
...went from the state to the national government. In the House of Representatives the rings control legislation. Cannon was the boss corresponding to Boss Butler in St. Louis. Aldrich and his ring, to which New England contributes generously, control the Senate...