Word: bossing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reported last month that the Department of Justice would not go to bat for Socialist Norman Thomas in his complaint under the Lindbergh Law (on kidnapping) against Boss Hague and the police of Jersey City who bum's-rushed him aboard a Manhattan-bound ferryboat when he tried to speak for civil liberties last spring. Such a storm of indignation rose from Liberals that the Department quickly disclaimed the report, said it was still studying the Thomas case. Last week Attorney General Cummings announced that evidence collected by G-Men would be placed before the Federal Grand Jury...
...retire for good, he will hold the title of president & publisher. Succeeding him last week in the key executive job as manager was Edwin Palmer ("Ep") Hoyt, 41, onetime logger who has been the Oregonian's managing editor since 1933. Editor Paul Roelofson Kelty, "Ep" Hoyt's boss until four years ago, stayed at his post. Youthful Lester Arden ("Pang") Pangborn was upped from executive news editor to managing editor. Retained as nonresident consultant was Newspaper Doctor Guy T. Viskniskki, who was summoned in 1934 to modernize the ailing Oregonian (TIME, Jan. 7, 1935), did such a good...
...shoulders. Brought from England by his printer father when he was four, he went West in a wagon train at 18, traded shots with Indians, turned down a bartender's job in Portland to set type for a weekly paper also called the Oregonian. His liquor-loving boss, Thomas J. Dryer, finally gave him the paper for back wages in 1860 and went off to the Sandwich Islands as a U. S. Commissioner. On Feb. 4, 1861, before he was 26, Pittock founded the daily Oregonian...
McLaughry, besides the fact that he is the son of the boss, is a 200-pound bucking back of real ability on the offense, but his defensive qualities re-is, according to Providence authorities, main questionable. O'Leary, however, a regular Clint Frank on defense...
...cabin, had to be rescued in earnest by Mr. Gable.) Apologetic but not penitent, Gable pretends to destroy the film. It remains to plague him through frame after frame of realistic action. By the time Myrna Loy has saved Gable's job by direct appeal to his boss, snubbed his arch rival, quarreled with him, and, unknowingly, accepted his aid in an effort to find a brother lost in a South American jungle, Too Hot to Handle has done too full justice to its subject...