Word: bossed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boss Allen Dulles fended Mc Carthy off, and Bill Bundy served as his deputy for nearly ten years. In 1961, Kennedy moved him to the Pentagon, and his new office in the outermost "E" ring is just down the hall from where his father used to operate under Stimson...
Since Philadelphia gave Kennedy a 331,500-vote plurality in 1960, enough to swing the whole state for him, U.S. Representative William Green, boss of the city's well-oiled Democratic machine, professes not to be worried about next time. Another Democrat whistled a graver tune: "Pennsylvania is no sure thing for Kennedy. We've got troubles...
Unburied Bodies. Even the scandals have taken a different tone-now they crop up because Gross & Co. are deliberately unburying the bodies. To the shock of shoddy contractors, the city's able new school building boss, Eugene E. Hult, recently ordered a half-built $2,500,000 Queens school to be partly dismantled because of weak concrete. Hult also publicized the quaint fact that school custodians, who get lump-sum maintenance funds and are allowed to socket unspent money, have been geting rich in the process. Bushwick High's D. Paul Bishop reportedly got $53,000 ast year...
Your constant reference to Governor Ross Barnett as "Ross" broke all rules of good journalism and conveniently confused the reader between myself--"Boss Burt"--and Governor Barnett, "Bumbling Ross...
...actually found himself campaigning nine years later, Ike says he tried to avoid Republican embarrassment over the noisy Senator Joseph McCarthy by asking that his campaign train bypass Wisconsin. Ike felt an added personal embarrassment: high among McCarthy's list of "traitors" was Ike's old boss and longtime friend, General George C. Marshall. But the campaign managers routed him into the state anyway and sat him on a platform with McCarthy himself. Why did Ike drop from his speech a tribute to Marshall? The professional politicians pointed out that he had already defended Marshall at a news...