Word: brennan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from a Detroit trucking concern. According to the indictment, Detroit's Commercial Carriers, Inc. in 1949 set up a Tennessee firm named Test Fleet. The new outfit leased trucks to Commercial Carriers. All the Test Fleet stock was transferred to Mrs. Hoffa and the wife of Owen ("Bert") Brennan, a Teamster vice president who died in 1961; the two women discreetly used their maiden names of Josephine Poszywak and Alice Johnson...
...trial began seven weeks ago, and the record is already more than 3,000 pages long. Prosecution witnesses testified that Mrs. Brennan was rarely consulted and Mrs. Hoffa never, in the management of Test Fleet or of the Hobren (for Hoffa-Brennan) Corp., as Test Fleet was renamed in 1954. Rather, key decisions were made by Hoffa and Brennan. The Government contended that Hoffa profited greatly from Test Fleet but never contributed to financing the company. Ray Van Beckum, a former president of Commercial Carriers, testified that the lease arrangement was kept up in the interest of keeping the peace...
...officials to pin the label "Communist" on any organization. In effect, the proposal would have turned grand juries into judges as well as accusers. The leader of the fight for the amendment, which the Los Angeles Times called "intolerable to free men," was whiskery Actor Walter (The Real McCoys) Brennan. who rounded up nearly a million signatures to get the plan on the ballot...
...clear that for the moment the strength in the Supreme Court lies on the side of the libertarians--Justices Black, Brennan, Douglas, and Warren," Robert G. McCloskey, professor of Government, said yesterday...
When questioned about the investigation on Monday, Daniel J. Brennan, Chief of Police, said he had nothing to report, and suggested that anyone interested contact the Election Commission...