Word: bossed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exposé also led to a new career for Salinger. In 1957, a big story was Dave Beck, the crooked boss of the Teamsters Union. Collier's Magazine assigned Salinger to write a series of articles about Beck, but the magazine folded before Pierre got into print. During the course of his work on Beck, Salinger met Bobby Kennedy, who was soon to be appointed counsel to the Senate subcommittee investigating labor racketeering. Bobby asked Pierre what he was going to do with the material he had gathered on Beck. Pierre offered it to Kennedy, and later was rewarded...
Frankly, Murphy was no great shakes at the box office, a fact well realized by his boss, MGM's Louis B. Mayer. But Mayer liked Murphy for other reasons. As a two-term president of the Screen Actors Guild, Murphy had helped clean out left-wingers and labor racketeers who had infiltrated the movie industry. Along the way, Murphy dropped his Democratic affiliation and became a Republican. Mayer, an ardent Republican himself, had heard Murphy deride Democrats, and he liked the cut of George's gibe. He encouraged Murphy to take on after-dinner speaking assignments. Before...
Rhode Island: Republican Ronald R. Lagueux, 33, executive counsel to Governor John Chafee, ran for the Senate as a favor to his boss. He stands no chance of thwarting 57-year-old Democrat John Pastore's bid for a third term...
...state roads. Speaking at a new plant-dedication ceremony in Forrest City, Ark., last summer, Rockefeller fractured Faubus by complaining that his campaign bus had been plagued by constant breakdowns-caused mostly by jouncing over so many miles of "Faubus Freeways." Rockefeller also attacks the Governor as the boss of a massive political machine. "My opponent is also visiting all the counties," cries Winthrop, "but he heads for the courthouse to a secret meeting where he oils the machine." Says Rockefeller: "If you want a man with a plan instead of a man with a machine, vote...
...grandson, Yachtsman Charles Francis Adams, was Secretary of the Navy under President Hoover. His great-grandson, the fourth Charles Francis, 54, has been longtime boss of Raytheon (space equipment), two weeks ago was elected chairman of the board...