Word: powerboss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This autumn, with a real war emergency at hand, Johnson tried again. Through his War Resources Board, he started honeymooning with New York's very unromantic powerboss, Floyd L. Carlisle (who would like in the process of integration to get a good piece of Howard Hopson's old Associated Gas & Electric system, which sticks into his New York organization at Rochester, Staten Island, elsewhere). Any chance that some arrangement could be made whereby Mr. Carlisle would become War II's No. 1 Dollar a Year man, and deliver the industry's cooperation in a big building...
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