Word: bossing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chicago's old Boss Ed Kelly was there, talking to Jersey City's debonair old Boss Frank Hague, who wore a straw boater and flourished a cane. With other Democratic National Committee members, they had gathered in Washington's Mayflower...
...note charged these atrocities to the personal account of Yugoslav Interior Minister Alexander Rankovic, who spent part of 1946 in Moscow learning his business from Soviet Secret Police Boss Lavrenty Beria...
...Russian support for its bid for U.N. membership), but the Reds continue to work entirely underground; when known Chinese Communists are caught, they are deported. Siam's 30,000 Communist party members have no real leader, but the man most frequently tagged as their boss is slender, ferret-faced Ku Kip, a Chinese Communist veteran who saw service under notorious Comintern Agent Michael Borodin...
...young (27) editor of the Memphis Press, Leech wrote a fiery editorial ("The Shame of It All") blasting Boss Crump's political machine, and accusing local judges of whitewashing Crump election frauds. Sentenced to ten days for contempt of court, Leech was escorted to jail by a brass band. Half an hour later, he was pounding out a story on a typewriter in his cell-first of a ten-day series called "Jailed." Admirers sent Leech a well-stocked refrigerator, fresh linen, flowers and cigars, and a faithful reader brought her daughter to recite the Declaration of Independence...
...boss of Hopalong Cassidy Enterprises, which gets an average 5% royalty on all sales of Hopalong cowboy goods, Boyd is the latest rider in a rich new stampede. While other retail sales have slumped, cowboy clothes and gadgets have gone galloping ahead. In the first 45 days they were on the market, $1,000,000 in Hopalong Cassidy items were sold...