Word: bosses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pendergast, jailed for income tax fraud, was politi cal boss...
...mission in life. He got into politics and served three terms in the House (where he made a reputation for understanding Government finance) before President Roosevelt made him Director of the Budget in 1933. Hard-headed Lewis Douglas washed his hands of the budget when his boss refused to balance it, and turned into a first-line foe of the New Deal...
Actually, Britain is boss of the waves to a greater extent than in 1914, when the German Navy was second in the world, not sixth. But air menace makes the value of England's navy a conundrum, the tradition of Nelson a question mark. London, nerve-centre of the Empire, is 330 miles closer to German airports than Berlin is to English airports. British aircraft and munitions factories are easy targets in the open. And in another war Britain's food supply from overseas may be threatened by air raiders as well as submarine raiders...
...Crawford, traveling salesman for a picture-frame firm, always hoped to make more than $30 a week, but never got much more, even after his boss bought him an automobile. His wife moped in her mother's big, heavily mortgaged house in Brooklyn, blamed herself when their baby died, blamed Bob when, after a gloomy weekend, he seemed glad to get back on the road. Bob took to padding his expense account, almost slept with a shopgirl in Boston, began to feel trapped. But when the old lady died, they found an insurance policy...
...Democrats also can-and sometimes do-jail Democrats. The high moral character of Democrat Frank Murphy, who says he has never made an appointment for purely political reasons, permits no recognition of party lines if Evil is involved. Attorney General Murphy's men put mighty Boss Pendergast of Kansas City behind the bars (TIME, May 29). They went after judges they thought were crooked (see p. 17). High-minded, capable judges and law enforcement officers replaced unsavory political characters...