Word: bille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sitting in the driver's seat of his rough-and-ready Teamsters Union, Jimmy Hoffa last week set out full blast to run down the mild-reforming Kennedy labor bill, which rolled through the Senate (TIME, May 4) and is due up soon in the House. While Hoffa's aides in Washington were buttonholing Congressmen in an effort to kill or soften the bill-aimed principally at the Teamsters' own flagrant abuses of power-Boss Hoffa popped into Nashville to blow the horn not only on the legislation but on his archenemy, A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany...
...labeled just so much horn blowing in a traffic jam, but the effect of Hoffa's campaign, both in Washington and the field, was to embarrass the A.F.L.-C.I.O., which kicked Hoffa out a year and a half ago. Meany is on record in favor of the Kennedy bill's restrictions against Hoffa's hoodlum unionism, but at the same time he opposes the minor "Bill of Rights" amendments, which would also curb activities of unions in general. Result: if he continues to support the bill, some of his A.F.L.-C.I.O. supporters may rebel, thus clearing...
...convention of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union in Miami, Massachusetts' Presidential Aspirant John Kennedy got a big hand and a pat on the back when he explained that his legislation was "the best bill we could get by the U.S. Senate." Said I.L.G.W.U. Boss Dave Dubinsky, in an introduction that all but stitched the I.L.G.W.U. label on Democrat Kennedy: "There has been considerable talk in informed circles about the possibilities of his holding the highest post in the nation ... If this should happen, we will have a better America and better legislation for the working people...
...Bill Everson learned about religious anarchy at a camp for conscientious objectors during the war. When that was over, his marriage on the rocks, he joined the group of creative and not-so-creative bums around Poet Kenneth Rexroth that began the "San Francisco renaissance." before Beatniks Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg came out from Manhattan and put the movement in the news. "I'm pre-beat," says Brother Antoninus...
...years ago, General Motors' William S. Knudsen, a Danish immigrant bicyclemaker turned automan, was the one who lit the fuse under Chevrolet and sent it out ahead of Ford as the most popular U.S. car. His reward was the presidency of General Motors. Three years ago, Big Bill Knudsen's son, Semon Emil Knudsen, took on a similar job: he was made boss of G.M.'s sputtering Pontiac division, thus became, at 43, G.M.'s youngest auto-di-vision boss. Pontiac was the weakest of all the auto divisions, languishing in sixth place in overall...