Word: bossing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boss, I tells you what I thinks about this here war. Germany, some back, she starts a crap game, threw an eight, then falls off. Now she wants her money back and starts grabbing. The mistake was when she first started grabbing not knocking...
Four years ago, when Emil Hurja was a Democratic statistician quietly estimating how many votes his boss would get for the Presidency, his staff in Washington included a young man named James Twohey. It was Mr. Twohey's job to analyze newspaper opinions, turn them into charts and figures for Mr. Hurja...
...Boss of the boys that moved in that night (carrying canvas signs: CHRYSLER CORPORATION, DODGE DIVISION) was the husky, jut-jawed Chrysler general manager whom Walter Chrysler described to his biographer, Boyden Sparkes, as "a great production man." That night at Detroit "K. T." had stayed close to the phone and when Walter Chrysler called from New York ("We've bought the Dodge-put up your signs") he knew what to do. Within a year he was president of Dodge and his brilliant production methods, stemming from the machine-shop where he had worked as a horny-handed mechanic...
While the impetuous Chrysler was wandering from roundhouse to roundhouse in the west at the turn of the century, always able to find a job, always quick to quit it when he had a row with the boss, purposeful K. T. Keller was a high-school boy in Mount Joy, Pa. Symbol of Walter Chrysler's youthful irresponsibility was his big silver-plated tuba, which he played in roundhouse bands, shipped from town to town in friendly cabooses while he rode up ahead in a boxcar with the hoboes. Mark of K. T. Keller's determination...