Word: caucusing
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...with other Teamster officials. Asked South Dakota's Senator Karl Mundt plaintively: "Is there anything you would like to say to help disincriminate yourself? Is the whole story really that bad?" O'Rourke declined to answer, but after the questioning was over, he stepped outside the Senate caucus room, braced himself against a marble pillar and burst into tears...
...eating sharks." It was indeed as forbidding a catch of fish as John McClellan's Senate labor rackets investigating committee has yet snared. One by one last week's school of hoods-including notorious Extortionist John (Johnny Dio) Dioguardi-appeared before the committee in the Senate caucus room and rasped out their Fifth Amendment pleas. But the evidence against them was there nonetheless. It added up to another chapter of the story of how mobsters took over segments of the nation's labor movement in the same strong-arm fashion that made Prohibition big business...
...know," said Dick Russell. "But I am trying to delay it-ten years if I'm not lucky, 200 years if I am." But Dick Russell does not really trust to luck in fighting his Senate campaigns. He believes, as he told his Southern colleagues at their secret caucus, in fighting a "case on the merits." And over the long pull, Dick Russell does not have much of a case...
Standing before Senator John McClellan's labor rackets investigating committee in the Senate caucus room one day last week, Committee Counsel Robert Kennedy pointed to a set of charts listing 15 union locals and their officers. These locals, he explained, are only a part of the 58 whose 125,000 members comprise the Teamsters Union Joint Council 16, "the biggest ruling body of the Teamsters in New York City." Teamsters Union Joint Council 16 controls the flow of all goods moving through the city. Said Kennedy: "If the Teamsters are controlled or run by hoodlums or gangsters...
...Washington's strife-spiced Senate caucus room last week, witnesses before the Senate Labor Rackets probers squirmed through the best soap opera that daytime TV could provide (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Although the major networks decided that one of the year's best running stones did not justify the heavy cost of carrying it, Manhattan's public-service-minded Du Mont Broadcasting Corp. was forking out $50,000 to cover the 5½ hours of hearings daily for three weeks. The telecast unfolded first on Du Mont stations WTTG in Washington and WABD in New York, by week...