Word: bossism
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...made the coon-fur fly when the morning and evening Baltimore Sun, for the first time in this century, decided to support the Republican mayoral candi date. The Sun attacked "complacency, bossism and corruption" in Baltimore, but Tommy D'Alesandro gleefully offered an other explanation for the switch: Sam Hopkins works as secretary and assistant treasurer of the Fidelity & Deposit Co., controlled by Harry Crawford Black, who is also principal owner of the A. S. Abell Co., publisher of the Sun. When the Sun came out for Hopkins, D'Alesandro stalked over to the editorial offices personally...
...Democratic candidate, former State Senator Robert Baumle Meyner (pronounced miner), 45, an eager small-town (Phillipsburg, pop. 19,000) lawyer whose key supporter is Jersey City's current Democratic boss, Mayor John V. Kenny. The Democratic record stems from ex-Boss Frank Hague and is deeply scarred by bossism and unbridled corruption-but this time the Democrats have been successful in wrapping themselves in the mantle of reform. Hague's nephew, former Mayor Frank Hague Eggers of Jersey City, is supporting Troast. One of Meyner's TV films shows three pairs of feet walking down cellar stairs...
...third and most dramatic show took a few healthy digs at bossism in politics by examining the situation in Pennsylvania, where the voters had overwhelmingly endorsed the candidacy of General Eisenhower, while most of the convention delegates had decided to remain unpledged. Governor John S. Fine (who controls 32 convention votes) made a last-minute appearance before the People camera, confided that "I have come to no conclusions up to this very moment," but thought he would before Chicago...
Mayor James M. Curley was compared to a "Nambikuari chieftain" by Jerome S. Bruner, associate professor of Social Psychology, yesterday afternoon, Bruner addressed the Social Relations Society on "The End of Bossism...
...reconstruction. In two instances, the executives that came after him left City Hall in near disgrace as Curley re-merged. With his training in municipal accounting while City Clerk and with his experience as acting mayor, Hynes has the equipment to reform the city's administration so that bossism cannot return...