Word: bosses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ironic angle: the money which George Berry wanted, Tom Stewart did not want. By accepting it he would accept Senatorhood before his term as Attorney-General expires, which would give Tennessee's Governor Browning (his and Boss Ed Crump's enemy) a chance to handpick an interim Attorney-General...
Kansas City's Democratic Boss Tom Pendergast, who runs one of the most notorious political machines in the U. S. and calls politics a "business," bought a distillery near Bardstown...
...Anyone who insists on working overtime without the knowledge or consent of his boss should be fired...
...other hand, if Boss Stalin has at last concluded that Nikolai Yezhov's drastic thinning of the top-rank Soviet administrators, generals and diplomats was itself a peculiarly subtle kind of sabotage. then Comrade Yezhov's removal last week was the beginning of his end. Every previous Commissar of Internal Affairs has eventually fallen victim to his successor...
...that invention is moving out of the garret and into the laboratories of Big Business. Packard's Macauley and General Motors' famed inventor, Charles F. Kettering, felt, however, that even in laboratories patents have value both as protection during the "shirt-losing" stage and as incentives. Said "Boss Ket": "The young fellows look on them just like diplomas...