Word: bosses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...individuals, the garment workers are the most disputatious, diverse, and in some ways the most innately disrespectful of authority of any segment in all U.S. labor. But they have a boss who is much more than a boss. To them, busy, bumptious little David Dubinsky is leader, father, prophet and demigod. To his I.L.G.W.U., they display furious devotion. It is a school, a welfare clinic, a social life and a political mentor. It is, as some of them say, a way of life...
...Papa." To union members, David Dubinsky is known fondly as "Papa" behind his back, as "Dubinsky" or "D.D." to his face. Waiting to see him in the reception room of his sumptuous office, the visitor does not have to be told when the boss goes by. The door flies open explosively and a stubby little man in slacks and sport shirt bursts out, waving a handful of papers, spouting orders, and trailing hovering assistants like gulls behind a tug. In moments of repose, behind a blond curved desk that was once Edsel Ford's, Dubinsky squirms with...
...Brussels, Spaak's fellow Socialists pledged a diehard fight against the King's return. "We shall not pour water into our wine," growled burly Socialist Boss Max Buset. "We are now in the opposition and we will counterattack...
...money and advice. An army major flew in to buy 350 steers for his garrison, and Lohman ordered a couple of Indians to ride north with them on the trail. A mud-spattered Gaucho galloped up with a report from a 100,000-acre pasture 35 miles away. The boss put down his gourd of mate, pulled out a notebook and wrote: "1,250 calves branded this week." That brought the year's total to more than...
...cheat in other ways." (Her sadder & wiser conclusion: "I know now that love will come when the time is ripe.") In Super Publications' Love Problems & Advice, an ambitious secretary discovers in the nick of time that $100-a-week salaries and mink coats from the boss are not for just taking dictation...