Word: bossism
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...comparatively recent child of political science. For the mayor-boss it substitutes a trained, salaried executive, the city manager, who operates in a strictly non-political sphere. He is solely responsible to the city council, whose members are elected by the community at large. Thus the cell of bossism, the ward, is smashed; and all the petty strings pulled by ward politicians are tied into a strong web around the city council. Further, the dictatorship of the 51 per cent is supplanted by a system of proportional representation, under which each party receives a number of representatives proportional...
...Pendergast, oldtime saloonkeeper, its control stretches from the Governor at Jefferson City to the policeman on the corner. Jim Pendergast's memory is kept green by a bronze statue with cherubs at his feet, commemorating his civic virtue. Upon Brother Tom, who looks like a Nast cartoon of Bossism personified, has devolved the more important duty of preserving the organization. His control of Kansas City and Jackson County is undisputed. Every county officer is obligated to him, virtually every State officer owes his job to Pendergast support, and he personally lifted Governor Guy Brasfield Park from an obscure rural...
...since Judas Maccabeus" was an idol in Soviet hearts because as Commissar of War he had created the Red Army out of chaos and revolution and had successfully beaten back the White Armies of Russian capitalism. Stalin, after maneuvering Trotsky out of office by the tactics of political bossism. still had to break the popularity which made "Trotsky" a name of power. Appointed Commissar of War was Trotsky's bitter foe, Comrade Michael Frunze. He "broke" every Trotskyist officer, but grew too powerful himself. His sudden death Stalin's enemies attribute universally to poison. Stalin's next...
...BOSSISM was being flung about from candidate to candidate like a medicine ball. On this issue, Daniel F. Cohalan, an oldtime politician and member of Tammany's war board, delivered one of the campaign's most illuminating speeches. Cried he: "What is the boss system, after all, except the development of that quality of human nature which makes one man the leader among his fellows, the man of light and leading among his associates?" Compared to the light of Tammany's Boss Curry, he said, "The word of Flynn [McKee's boss] is as light...
...support was Democratic votes taken back from LaGuardia, plus defections from Tammany. Last week there were signs that he would get a lot of Republican votes too. The city's leading G. O. Partisans like Ruth Pratt and Ogden Mills were siding with Fusion against all "bossism," in accordance with the party...