Word: bossing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jokes to tell last week. After elaborate but independent investigations of his political and financial interests, LIFE and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch simultaneously published accounts of Long's association with St. Louis Attorney Morris A. Shenker, chief of a brigade of lawyers representing jailed Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa. Both publications charged that in the years 1963-64 Shenker had paid Ed Long some $48,000 in fees-though the Post-Dispatch was gingerly about saying...
...sent only Democrats to the state house of representatives since the district was formed in 1953. The reputation of Hoffa pere, which might have been fatal in many constituencies, was a boon in the 19th, with its large population of union members, many of whom feel the imprisoned Teamster boss got a bum rap. The Teamsters and the United Auto Workers went all out to elect young Hoffa, who even won kind words from Vice President Hubert Humphrey and Senator Robert Kennedy when they were in town...
Unlikely Friendship. How are the coalition partners getting along? So far, amazingly well. Burly Franz Josef Strauss, boss of the C.D.U.'s autonomous Bavarian branch, is working smoothly in his post as Economics Minister with Finance Minister Karl Schiller, who is a Socialist. Kiesinger has correct, if cool, relations with Socialist Leader Willy Brandt, who is both Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister. As a whole, the eleven Christian Democrat ministers and nine Socialists have pretty well buried ideological differences in favor of a get-it-done approach...
...Real Pressure. The Treasury boss also asked Congress to lift its long-established 41% interest-rate ceiling on Government bonds of more than five years maturity lest there be "a sharp rise in short-term rates." Another upward pressure on interest rates is the U.S. balance-of-payments deficit; last week the Commerce Department reported that the deficit jumped 19% from the fourth quarter of 1966, to $539 million during this year's first quarter...
...wily miser who pretends to be dying in order to trick his equally greedy friends into bringing him costly deathbed gifts. Each donor believes that he will be Volpone's sole beneficiary-a notion ironically dispelled when the miser's servant writes his own name into his boss's blank will...