Word: bossed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...less than two hours after the polls closed, Bronx Democratic Boss Charles Buckley, 73, walked scowling from a back door of the decrepit office building that houses his headquarters. Two reporters met him with questions. "Get the hell outa the way," snarled a Buckley henchman. Those words were downright kindly compared with Buckley's own profanity. After 30 years as Congressman from New York's 23rd District, during which he rose to the chairmanship of the pork-barreling House Public Works Committee, Buck ley had just been beaten in his party's primary by a political dude...
Roosevelt's old friend, Boss Ed Flynn...
Measure of Influence. Two other ma chine men were stopped in New York last week. In the 21st Congressional District, Chief Buckley Lieutenant and five-term Representative James C. Healey lost 20,000 to 22,000 to Reformer James H. Scheuer. In Greenwich Vil lage, onetime Tammany Hall Boss Carmine De Sapio lost a second bid to regain his district leadership to Attorney Edward I. Koch in a 5,904 to 5,740 vote. In one exception, however, 19th District Congressman Leonard Farbstein, an oldtime Tammany politician, turned back reform Challenger William Haddad, 35, with 19,851 votes to Haddad...
...Machines Bull, a group of financiers who had been called upon to save the French giant from losses and the prospect of nationalization selected Banker Roger Schulz, 44, to be boss. A director of the Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas, rugged and athletic Schulz has specialized in reviving comatose companies. Bull, the Continent's largest computer maker (1962 sales: $69 million) was gored by IBM and others when it tried to expand its line of small computers by building bigger models. The previous president, Joseph Callies, left under pressure after the French government vetoed his plan...
Bates begins as a lowly clerk in an upper-U firm of London property agents. En route to a partnership and a Westminster Abbey wedding with the boss's daughter (Millicent Martin), he hires an aging, aristocratic wastrel (Denholm Elliott) to guide him through a whirlwind curriculum of fashionable prejudices. "Say 'bloody' a lot," counsels Elliott. "Know a few dirty jokes about the Caesars." When tutor and pupil take aim at the Establishment in a series of daft vignettes-playing squash, touring Cambridge, or off on a jolly shoot-Nothing but the Best looks and sounds like...