Word: brought
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York. From his Midwest power base, Hoffa pushed into New York in the mid-1950s with the help of Extortionist John Dioguardi, alias Johnny Dio, boss of a shakedown ring thinly disguised as a labor union. Dio & Co. brought into the labor rackets 40 toughs with a total of 178 arrests on their police dockets. One of them told a Brooklyn machine-shop owner: "You have got to pay us off because you are mine. No matter where you are going to move, you are mine." During Hoffa's struggle to get control of the Teamster joint council...
...problems caused by the. blackout, it brought at least one strange and encouraging result. The blacked-out area included some of New York's toughest neighborhoods, where crime rates run high and the tensions of race and color flow easily into violence. Expecting the worst, Police Commissioner Stephen P. Kennedy kept 2,000 day-shift cops on overtime duty, sent prowl cars with loudspeakers through the streets to warn people to stay at home. But Kennedy need not have bothered: during the 13 hours before all the lights came back on, the crime rate plunged to almost nothing. Said...
...would be Ike's first trip to Europe in two years, his first to England in seven years, and everywhere the best linen sheets were being brought out and the silver polished. In Britain the President would go on TV with Harold Macmillan and rest a night as the Queen's guest on the Scottish hills of Balmoral. In Bonn some 150,000 school children provided with paper flags would get the day off to line the streets and cheer Ike's arrival. German officials scurried around for a limousine large enough to squeeze an interpreter...
Already things had threatened to get out of hand. The Norwegian press snorted at U.S. rhapsodies about the "Cinderella" marriage, testily pointed out that Anne-Marie's brief stint as a U.S. housemaid (one year) was common European practice for well-brought-up girls, who often serve au pair* in a foreign country. Anne-Marie should not even be called a poor girl, protested one paper, because "everybody is poor in comparison with the Rockefellers...
...Steven's mother, Mary Todhunter Clark Rockefeller, who embraced Anne-Marie and described her to reporters as "wonderful." Next came Steven's brothers: Michael, a student at Harvard, and Credit Analyst Rodman and his wife Barbara, who were the only passengers on the chartered KLM plane that brought them from New York. At week's end Governor Nelson Rockefeller flew in with the rest of the family: Steven's two sisters, Mary. 21, Michael's twin and a student at Vassar, and Ann, 25, the wife of Episcopal Clergyman Robert L. Pierson. None of Steven...