Word: central
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...answer lay in regional organization, and by 1937 Beck had set up an eleven-state Western Teamsters Conference, with himself as chairman. The Teamsters' conference system is Beck's proudest organizational achievement, and he has expanded it to establish feudal baronies in the East, South and Central States...
Indicted by a federal grand jury in Washington last week: James Riddle Hoffa, 44, a vice president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, boss of the teamsters' powerful Central Conference, with headquarters in Detroit, and challenger to I.B.T. President Dave Beck. The charges, all based on Hoffa's offer of $18,000 and payment of $3,000 for documents filched from the McClellan committee files (TIME, March 25): 1) bribery, with a possible penalty of three years' imprisonment and a fine of three times the bribe total; 2) conspiracy, five years and $10,000; 3) obstruction...
...turned up there after imprisonment in Rumania and treatment for a mental disorder. Last week a small announcement in the East German (Communist) Neues Deutschland ended the Markos mystery. A resolution by the exiled Greek Communist Party restored to Comrade Markos Vafiades his rights as a member of the Central Committee, admitted that he "had been disciplined by the Central Committee on the basis of empty accusations and by violation of the party statutes during the abnormal inner-party regime." The same meeting expelled Zachariades, who was charged with having "told lies, twisted facts and slandered the party cadre." Stalinist...
...Institutional Center will have a group of office buildings built on two levels focusing on a spacious central plaza. The problem was to build the memorial in the plaza, yet keep the area free and uncluttered. Knight's solution: to build his memorial pavilion between the two levels so that its roof becomes part of the plaza. Inside the glass-walled pavilion is an auditorium in the round. Jutting through the roof of the building into the plaza will be three arrangements of tubular, gold-colored carillons that will soar 80 feet into the air and gently chime throughout...
Besides visiting two Midwestern institutions, Ohio Central State College and Lake Erie College, the Glee Club will sing at Becker Junior College in Worcester, Mass...