Word: bossed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hitler's press boss was Max Amann, a stupid, brawling dwarf bullock who had been Corporal Hitler's wartime company sergeant. Amann had assembled a press empire of 59 dailies even before the party took power. For the sake of Nazi recognition, scores of nonparty papers agreed to print Nazi propaganda free and to take no ads from Jews. By way of disaster insurance, dozens of German advertisers cynically bought space in official Nazi organs. The German people were partly to blame, for they did not support the few honest papers that warned what Hitler...
Nowadays, said Brewster, "everyone has a constituent, a sponsor, a supplier, a buyer, a boss who dominates his life. Freedom has too often been reduced to the right to choose on whom to be dependent. There are few centers left where genuine, constructively motivated independence is proclaimed with serenity and zest...
...Dearborn would take him on as a salesman, he quit the company, went out on his own and got a job in the sales office of the Ford assembly plant in Chester, Pa. Impressed by the way the aggressive Iacocca whipped lagging Ford dealerships to higher sales, his boss (Charles Beacham, now Ford's marketing vice president) took him along when he progressed to sales manager of a region stretching from Pennsylvania to Florida...
...become the car marketing manager for the Ford Division. One promotion followed another-until the telephone rang one November morning in 1960. It was Henry Ford II, and he wanted Iacocca to drop over. Less than an hour later,Iacocca drove back to division headquarters as its new boss...
Bradley, a 33-year-old former fullback for the Cleveland Browns, offers his audience as few comforts as possible. The Studio serves only hot wine and popcorn, and the customers are crowded unmercifully into a room scarcely larger than a pool table. The boss pays his performers only food and carfare, and the constantly changing program denies them even the salve of star billing. To pure folk singers, though, the problems are minor, and the Studio has become a shrine that wins the affectionate services of such stars as Odetta, Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger when they pass through town...