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1869 tobacco label featuring Boss Tweed. In the politics of the United States of America, a boss is a person who controls a faction or local branch of a political party.They do not necessarily hold public office themselves; most historical bosses did not, at least during the times of their greatest influence.
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Johnny Powers, a local Irish-American saloonkeeper and longtime political boss of the predominantly Irish 19th Ward, had been in power since the 1880s and despite the large influx of Italian immigrants over the decades managed to retain power among the area despite his reputation for corruption and offering political protection to criminal elements in Chicago's underworld.
On Jan. 26, a jury in New York found Trump liable for defaming writer E. Jean Carroll, ordering him to pay her a total of $83.3 million in damages. The award includes $11 million for damage to her ...
Hyped-up political violence is practically part of "The Good Fight" set. Mobs with deliberately vague alliances thrash in the streets below the firm's offices, whose windows get shot out by small ...
Donald J. Trump, the 45th and soon to be 47th president of the United States, makes a strong case in that his political comeback was the greatest in American, or perhaps all, of history.
City Hall is a 1996 American political thriller film directed by Harold Becker and starring Al Pacino, John Cusack, Bridget Fonda and Danny Aiello. [3] The film is Becker's second collaboration with Pacino, having directed him in Sea of Love (1989).
California’s Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom on Monday announced he is seeking up to $25 million in additional funding for legal fights with the incoming administration of U.S. President-elect ...