Word: bossing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frown for Hague. Before he concluded, with a Chinese homily, Franklin Roosevelt did something his "liberal" friends have been wishing he would do for some weeks. Indirectly yet unmistakably, he frowned on the Vice Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Boss Frank Hague of Jersey City, whose suppression of C. I. O. and Communists has earned him national fame as a foe of civil liberties. Said the head of the Democratic Party...
...Turrou, G-Man. He had been working on the spy case 16½ hours a day for 14 weeks. He had not seen his family for four months. His doctor had told him he must rest, long and completely. So he wrote a letter of resignation to his boss, Director John Edgar Hoover...
...with many a farmer suspicious of the Governor's city ways, his enthusiasm for organized labor even when it takes money out of farm pockets. Hero of such conservative Farmer-Laborites is bespectacled Hjalmar Petersen, onetime lieutenant governor who served four months as Governor after the death of Boss Floyd Olson in 1936, once quit the party for a time because he thought it was going Communist. Last week, the party went to the polls to choose between Governor Benson and onetime Governor Petersen in its gubernatorial primary, to settle which was the stronger side of Farmer-Labor...
...Judge Clark's court at Newark, the trial of Boss Hague ran through its third week. Besides being New Jersey's Democratic boss and Jersey City's mayor, Frank Hague is Vice Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, which gratefully accepted $270,000 from C.I.O.'s cornerstone, the United Mine Workers of America, for its 1936 campaign. Alert C.I.O. Lawyer Morris Ernst asked Vice Chairman Hague if he would repudiate, for example, the C.I.O. supporters of Democratic Senator Alben Barkley in Kentucky, of Democratic Governor Frank Murphy of Michigan...
Last week, 40,000 Brooklyn baseball fans crammed Ebbets Field and 20,000 were turned away. What they had come to see was Boss MacPhail's first big innovation-the first major-league baseball game played under floodlights in New York City.* With his customary extravagance, Larry MacPhail had made the baseball game an incidental of the evening's entertainment. He had invited famed Olympic Sprinter Jesse Owens to do his stuff before the game, had hired two fife & drum corps and a couple of brass bands. At 9:45 when the grandstand customers who had paid...