Word: bossism
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...there had been heavy pressure in Washington against him. The Democratic National Committee wanted the $10,000-a-year plum for its own choice, New Hampshire's ex-Governor Francis Murphy. From party politicos to the White House went protests about Luis Muñoz Marin's bossism. Harry Truman stood firm; he wanted a native, and Interior Secretary Julius Krug agreed that Sugar Farmer Piñero should be the man. So did most Puerto Ricans...
Political bossism had also flourished in those devil-take-the-hindmost eras. Clevelanders, always politically alert, had always fought it off eventually. Now the average Clevelander was beginning to feel that there was no domination. Even the most inveterate civic-luncheon addicts could offer no guess as to which of a dozen men was most influential in his town's affairs. The man in Cleveland's streets did not even know who was the town's richest man. It did not seem to matter. The composite Clevelander was beginning, to get the idea that...
...luncheon highlighted the ambitions of the two men. Ed Kelly, now 68, with three years of his third term still to run, has often told friends that he wants to leave office with a record of civic improvement behind him-instead of the gamy cerements of Democratic bossism. And Dwight Green. 48, just beginning Term II, wants two things: 1) to wipe out the do-nothing record of Term I and to make a real record of accomplishment in the next four years; 2) to break away from the dominance of the Chicago Tribune's isolationist Colonel Bertie McCormick...
From the cornfield constituency of self-styled "country boy" Alf Landon to the Capitol Hill offices of smooth politician Joe Martin, the anguished cry went up: "Power-mad bureaucrats." "Bossism." "No milk for Hottentots." All the threadbare, empty rhetoric, spouted in the name of the "American Way" by the same coterie who have, at the price of disunity, taken the public by its ears and dragged it away from the cesspool of a global war to get a whiff of the Administration's "sewer of bureaucracy." Visions of the 1944 election are crowding the nation's war and peace problems...
There is little of personality involved in this choice. Both of the candidates are competent and hard-working men; both are of the highest character; both have kept their records free from charges of corruption, bossism or machine politics. But here the similarity ends. The two contestants represent ideals and policies as distant as the poles...