Word: bosses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also just completed 20 solo records for Victor, and the Primrose Quartet, of which he is boss and viola player, had just muscled in on the front rank of U. S. chamber-music organizations. For him a half-dozen of the world's leading composers (including Paul Hindemith, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Arnold Bax, William Walton) were busy writing viola sonatas, viola concertos...
...amounts not to the traditional 10% but to only 4.1% of deposits. However, Continental Illinois has nearly as much cash and governments ($1,111,078,283) as deposits ($1,212,371,248) and was as solvent as could be. Onetime RFC Employe Cummings was in a position to tell Boss Jones to go whistle...
Died. James Willis ("J. Will") Taylor, 59, Republican boss of Tennessee, for 21 years a Congressman; of a heart attack; in La Follette, Tenn. In his early campaign days, J. Will Taylor, then known as "HillBilly Bill," electioneered by jumping over farmers' fences, plowing their fields for them while he made his campaign speech...
With Benjamin belongs Diplomat John Slidell, slick, charming, Byronic intriguer at the Paris court, oldstyle boss of New Orleans. "Slidellian" was once a synonym for "underhand." (The Confederacy's luckless diplomacy in Mexico, Paris, London became known when Colonel Pickett sold the Confederacy's diplomatic correspondence for about $75,000 to the Federal Government...
...sociable, hostessy, keeps her husband in touch with such friends as Woollcott, Harpo Marx, the Robert Sherwoods, the Irving Berlins. To Woollcott, whom Kaufman has hilariously scalped in The Man Who Came to Dinner, and who has been at different times his collaborator, brief biographer and boss, he is devoted. Talking to him, he says, "is like holding your face before an open drain," but Woollcott is "an entrancing companion...