Word: bosses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...life and renounced it, her debut in her new role was dramatic. Suddenly appearing in a railway yard at lunch hour, she began to preach to the workers. One o'clock came but no whistle blew. Uldine's words had held all the workers enthralled. Out stalked an angry boss to discover what the trouble was, but he, too, felt Uldine's spell and stayed to listen. Thus did wisdom encounter and overcome the forces of Mammon...
...third is Representative William Scott Vare of Philadelphia, another millionaire. He announced his candidacy a day after Mr. Pinchot. He is variously known as the boss or leader of Philadelphia Republicanism. He announced himself as the "Wet Hope" of Pennsylvania. He will have the Republican machine with him, at least in the eastern part of the state. In the western part the Mellons may swing the organization for Pepper. But Vare hopes to take compensation out of Pinchot's vote. He declared: "I shall be opposed by two candidates who would maintain the extreme rigor of the Volstead law. Enforcement...
...surface, yet perhaps it displayed a little of what was going on underneath, for prohibition is expected to play a major part in the elections of at least three large states next fall, Illinois, New York and Pennsylvania?in Illinois because Mr. Brennan, the wet Democratic boss, has announced his candidacy for the Senate against the dry Republicans; in New York because the drys are expected to put up a candidate against Senator Wadsworth, who is not dry enough to suit them; and in Pennsylvania, where Representative Vare, wet boss of the Philadelphia machine, is expected to run against Senator...
George F. Brennan, Democratic boss of Cook County (in which Chicago is situated), announced last week that he would be a candidate for U. S. Senator from Illinois on a wet platform. Mr. Brennan is a follower in the national arena of Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York. Quidnunes guess that Mr. Brennan hopes to capture a seat in the Senate while the local Republicans are falling out with one another over the World Court...
...facile mood of fantasy, finds himself face to face with himself as a boy. He was a freckled, active, vital kid. He is a pale and pulseless man. So the kid goes along with him for a while and stirs his spirit to the point of telling his boss to go to the devil and asking his girl to marry...