Word: bossing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bread, and because $1,425,000,000 is a lot of Government money to have to spend in an election year, Harry Hopkins has inevitably become regarded as a prime mover-and prime target-on the national political scene. To himself, however, he remains first & foremost the dutiful boss of "Men at Work...
...Boss of all these jobs and thus of the town's livelihood is sleek, youngish Village Clerk Frank Indihar, who also has an insurance business. His brother, Anthony, is deputy village clerk and president of the Board of Education. Last week Minnesotans heard of strange doings in Gilbert...
Nowadays no employer with a grain of sense would tire his men for joining a union. Once they have joined, the Wagner Act leaves the boss no choice except 1) to recognize their union, or 2) find some other excuse for getting rid of them. No fools, directors of the Richland Center (Wis.) Co-operative Creamery last week forestalled NLRB prosecution by promising to deal with an A. F. of L. union which some of their employes had joined. Next day five of the six directors stood by while 500 farmers racketed into Richland Center...
...Franklin Roosevelt (TIME, July 4): "The New Deal has sit up labor boards which are executives, legislatures, prosecutors, judges, juries and executioners. It has tried to humble the judiciary and turn Congress into a rubber stamp. If this be liberalism, then King George III, Karl Marx, Mussolini and Boss Tweed were liberals...
...small boy unaware of the ruination around him. Only in his drawings of Chamberlain does Cartoonist Low seem unreservedly angry, and his campaign against the Prime Minister gives promise of belonging with the great performances of its type, the war of Thomas Nast against Boss Tweed, of Homer Davenport against Mark Hanna...