Word: bosses
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...meeting of the 1901 drill squad it was decided to divide the class according io height into two companies A and B, the taller men constituting Company B and the shorter men Company A. The election of offices resulted as follows: Company A-Captain, B. Boss; First Lieutenant, H. W. Keene; Second Lieutenant, R. M. Brown; First Sergeant, W. A. Heilprin. Company B-Captain, P. E. Coyle; First Lieutenant, S. G. Ellis; Second Lieutenant, C. C. Brayton; First Sergeant, R. M. Brownell...
...Pettingell, T. Michelson, A. Sachs, S. D. Davenport, H. C. Shaw, J. W. Hallowell, H. V. Poor, C. D. Daly, J. A. O'Gorman, R. S. Silver, L. J. Watson 2d, B. W. Dean, C. L. Thurston, H. B. Clark, H. W. Palmer, H. R. Brigham, B. Boss, R. H. Dana, Jr., W. R. Lawrence, A. P. Young, B. D. Barker, C. P. Rollins...
...evils of rings and bosses are in no sense local and temporary, but general and permanent. A boss is very hard to define. We usually know him when we see him, but to understand how we came to have bosses and what they are, we must first consider the parties in America today. The United States are now governed by two immense corporations, calling themselves the Republican and the Democratic parties. Each party, through control of the primaries by the bosses or rings, becomes dominated by cliques. For no candidates can be chosen at the primaries under boss rule except...
...Boss, B, 12 Conant
...Ohio against Brice.- (z) In Kentucky against Blackburn.- (b) The Republicans have failed to achieve any practical results in this line: Harper's, XL, 266-67; Nation, LXII, 245-6.- (x) Quay is a despot in Penn; Beston Herald, April 3, 1896; Nation, LXII, 170.- (y) Platt "most powerful boss the state (i. e. New York) has ever seen": Nation, LXII, 150.- (z) Foraker strong in Ohio...