straw boss

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The one name you will not find in that essay is Lance Armstrong, who was the straw boss of the team during Vaughters’s short time around the Tour.

From New York Times • Aug. 24, 2012

Laughlin will be publisher and straw boss of Perspectives, but "to avoid any taint of cultism," each issue will have a different editor.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1932, he quit his job as straw boss with a construction firm and raised a $125 down payment on a Model A pickup truck.

From Time Magazine Archive

Again Brother Bobby Kennedy will be the straw boss.

From Time Magazine Archive

The straw boss had no faith in her, having watched her sweating hard to fill her sack as quickly as the children, but she was highly and suddenly vocal in her determination.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison