Word: bosses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pencils for your standardized tests? Now you know.) Jane says the pencils were the most boring part of the summer, at least until she realized "you can sharpen pencils and read Lady Chatterley's Lover at the same time...After that I listened to the Grateful Dead because my boss went on vacation...
Eddie Vrdolyak, former boss of Chicago, announced he was leaving the Democratic party of his immigrant parents, who found a home in one of the ethnic neighborhoods of Chicago, in order to join the Republican party of Lake Shore Drive. Apparently the Democrats no longer represented the interests that had drawn Vrdolyak's family to the party...
Vrdolyak didn't want the votes of Blacks. Daley never had to confront his prejudice because in his time the Black vote was still disenfranchised. But while Daley never dealt with the Black vote; Vrdolyak did--and this latter day boss did not adapt to let Blacks into the machine on an equal level...
Trim, in good shape, in his grey flannel suit, White hardly looked like the political boss that his ward-savvy rhetoric suggested. He said the politics of the Boston which he served were of an era gone...
...such shaping can not be done in the way of old boss politics, White said: "The new Boston requires a new spirit of plurality...