Boss Platt

Boss Platt, of New York, was a politician, but far removed from Roosevelt.

Theodore Roosevelt An Intimate Biography Thayer, William R 1919

Boss Platt wrote Roosevelt a letter -- one of the sort inspired more by sorrow than by anger -- to the effect that he had been warned that the Governor was a little loose on the relations of capital and labor, on trusts and combinations, and, in general, on the right of a man to run his business as he chose, always respecting, of course, the Ten Commandments and the Penal Code.

Theodore Roosevelt An Intimate Biography Thayer, William R 1919

This person, whom we will call X., met Mr. Roosevelt at a public reception and with the brusqueness, to put it mildly, of a hereditary reformer, he demanded to know why the Governor breakfasted and dined with Boss Platt.

Theodore Roosevelt An Intimate Biography Thayer, William R 1919

Boss Platt himself was compelled reluctantly to relate how he had for fifteen years received ten one thousand dollar bundles of greenbacks from the Equitable Life as

The Boss and the Machine; a chronicle of the politicians and party organization Samuel Peter Orth 1897