Word: bosses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boss Tom Pendergast is a character. Chief proprietor of the "Ready-Mixed Concrete Co.," he has provided and hauled much of Kansas City's north end, not to mention providing most of the politics of the city and environs as leader of "He Goat" (local equivalent of Tammany Hall). Once when Tom and his family were away, robbers looted his $100,000 home of $150,000 worth of jewels and clothes including 480 pairs of silk stockings bought for his daughter Marceline's trousseau. However, Tom was in Manhattan at the time, and was reported to have...
...Rooster is Rentfro Banton Creager, red-haired Brownsville bank president, Republican National Committeeman and Texas boss, onetime gubernatorial nominee, good friend of Presidents Harding and Coolidge, both of whom offered him the U. S. Ambassadorship to Mexico. In every way "Rooster" Creager looms large in Texas. When he read references to himself which he considered defamatory in Collier's magazine, he was not one to blench. Promptly he filed libel suits against Cottier's aggregating...
...lonely, dusty greasers. Today Hidalgo is a shining, fertile land, starred with endless constellations of grapefruit, melons and other juici- nesses?a lustrous feat of irrigation. Its crop is estimated at 4,500 carloads per year. Hidalgo homes are prosperous. Yancy Baker, onetime roughriding Hidalgo sheriff, now Democratic boss, lives in an enormous red and yellow showr place. Hidalgo people smile in the sun. Hidalgo ripens like its fruits. It has been irrigated financially through troughs of clever politics...
Henry Justin Smith, 54, spouts quips from a dry, poker face. He is 1) author of this book's Introduction and Part II, 2) Poet Carl Sandburg's proud "boss," managing editor of the Chicago Daily News. That Mr. Smith makes no attempt to glorify his city is a sign of the regeneration of U. S. editors...
Louis Kroh Liggett, drug tycoon, Republican National Committeeman for Massachusetts, contributed to the messiness of things Republican by charging that James Michael Curley, Democrat, had kept the religious issue alive during last year's campaign by "dastardly work"- circulating anti-Catholic literature. Last week Boss Curley sued Boss Liggett for civil and criminal libel...