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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...served successfully under six Presidents and twelve Attorneys General (and got a new boss this week-see The Administration), Hoover is above all else an extraordinarily competent and careful bureaucrat who runs his own show and has learned to perfection the art of survival in Government-even though, as a lifelong Washingtonian, he has never voted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOARDS & BUREAUS: The Watchful Eye | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

...mine just outside Klidi. The wounded driver saw one of Dimitrios' men, Basilis Stoikos, lurking in the bushes and arrested him. To make him talk, government soldiers tied him up and put a mine at his feet. Terrified, Stoikos told all he knew about his boss and his organosis; then he cut his own throat with a broken bottle. A doctor sewed up the wound, but stoical Stoikos tore it open again and bled to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: The Protector | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

...Youngest team, as figured by statistics-minded Brooklyn Boss Branch Rickey: his own Dodgers, with an average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Nine Old Men | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...agree to give each of them ten shares (worth at least $35,000 a share) of the McCormick-Patterson trust stock. Times-Herald staffers wondered whether there would be any personnel changes. Said Editor Waldrop: 'You'll have to ask the colonel. He's the boss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Outpost | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

Silent Partner. Sir William is the undisputed boss of all the commercial aspects of Anglo-Iranian; only in strategic matters can he be voted down by Lord Alanbrooke, wartime Chief of the Imperial General Staff, who represents the government on Anglo-Iranian's board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Under the Big Globe | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

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