Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...awesome bulk, the record has some significant gaps: committee investigators found that many Teamster documents, including all records of Hoffa's own Local 299 for the years prior to 1953, had been destroyed or hidden. Most of the important Teamster officials who testified ducked behind the Fifth Amendment. Hoffa himself never took the Fifth, but he displayed what one Senator called "the best forgettery of anyone I have ever known." In a single committee session, Hoffa pleaded lack of memory in times in response to committee questions...
...work out an alliance between Hoffa and Philadelphia Teamster Raymond Cohen, whose Local 107 had 19 officers with criminal records totaling 104 arrests and 40 convictions. Cohen stands accused by the McClellan committee of misusing more than $400,000 in Local 107 funds (confronted with the accusation, Cohen dodged behind the Fifth Amendment). When Hoffa took over as Teamster president, he picked Cohen as one of the brotherhood's three international trustees. The trustees are supposed to see to it that Teamster funds are properly used and accounted...
Myth No. I. Jimmy Hoffa, the committee charges, has shown a keen interest in making money for Jimmy Hoffa. Tracing the web of Hoffa's financial dealings proved to be difficult, because he deals entirely in cash, leaving no personal-check stubs or canceled checks behind. Asked to explain this peculiarity, Hoffa bristles and replies that as a U.S. citizen he has a "right" to deal in cash if he wants...
...contrast, Democratic candidates seemed almost locked in a closet-and indeed, one was. Massachusetts' Senator John Kennedy spent the week behind closed doors, trying to work out a labor bill as a member of the House-Senate conference committee. Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey was openly fretting because his Capitol Hill duties kept him off the campaign trail-and out of the news. If Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington had done anything newsworthy in the last month, it had certainly escaped the attention of most observers. Adlai Stevenson, returning from Europe, again denied that...
...quite makes it. He stops here to help unearth a war-rare Finnegans Wake from the rubble, or just to lean against tired oars in a suburban outing pond. He also pauses to ponder a still-unclear conscience. But, getting nowhere in particular, he still manages to leave Eva behind by a few paces of poetic insight...