Word: bossed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Only One Boss. Johnson is now President of the U.S. because he changed his mind at the last minute about accepting John Kennedy's offer to be his running mate. At the 1960 convention, Johnson was Kennedy's strongest opponent, and Lyndon had some rather unkind things to say about Jack. But after Kennedy won on the first ballot, he asked Lyndon to take the vice-presidential nomination. At first Lyndon refused to trade "a vote for a gavel." But he finally accepted. Said he to Kennedy: "I know there is only one boss. That...
...last Friday. His name is not yet on the office door, because not until next Jan. 1 will he become a full partner in the Manhattan firm of Mudge, Stern, Baldwin & Todd. His secretarial staff numbers just two, and spends much of its time turning down invitations for the boss to make public appearances. Yet for all his insistence that he has no immediate plans for a return to national office, Richard Nixon suddenly seems to be the Republican whom everybody is talking about for his party's 1964 presidential nomination...
Died. Charles Ruffin Hook, 83, longtime (1930-59) president and chairman of Armco Steel Corp., the nation's fourth-largest steel company (1962 sales: $918 million), who married the boss's daughter and ran the company with such a velvet glove (the industry's first eight-hour day, first group insurance plan) that to this day fewer than half of Armco's 34,000 employees belong to the steelworkers' union; of cancer; in Garrison...
...most interesting comment in the book appears in the author's answer to the question of whether politics dominated by the middle-class ethos is appreciably better than boss-controlled politics. Administration is more efficient and less corrupt, but there are still problems. "If in the old days specific material inducements were illegally given as bribes to favored individuals, now much bigger ones are legally given to a different class of favored individuals, and, in addition, general inducements are proffered in packages to every group in the electorate and to tiny but intensely moved minorities as well." The style...
...Republican nomination for Governor of Illinois after having built the movie-equipment maker from $13 million to $148 million in yearly sales. The two men, long tennis-playing pals, are cast in the same mold, but Peterson is if anything a shade more cerebral than his former boss. An advertising expert who has also taught marketing at the University of Chicago, Peterson was a vice president of McCann-Erickson by 27, moved to Bell & Howell as executive v.p. in 1958. He originated its series of TV documentaries on such contro versial subjects as integration, and is an omnivorous reader...