Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unscrew Hoffa's hammerlock on most of the U.S. transportation industry. Just about the last hope of halting Hoffa is the three-man Teamster Board of Monitors, set up three years ago by a Federal court to keep the 1,650,000-member union at least reasonably clean. Last week Jimmy Hoffa was just one shot away from sinking the monitors...
Hoffa either ignored the board's clean-up recommendations or evaded them by appealing to higher courts-with significant success. He also stalled. The former Hoffa-appointed monitor, Daniel Maher, started skipping meetings. His successor, William ("Buffo") Bufalino, a Hoffa crony and head of a Detroit Teamster local that was described by the Senate rackets committee as "a leech preying on working men and women," started walking out of meetings. Strangely, insurgent-appointed Monitor Lawrence T. Smith was hard to find when meetings were called, and he accused Chairman Martin F. O'Donoghue of being obsessed with "getting...
...Munich and returned to Czechoslovakia at the end of the war with the liberating army. At first he tried to work with the coalition government of Eduard Benes. When he saw that the Czechs meant to expel all Sudeten Germans, he gave up and moved to Bavaria. With his clean anti-Nazi record, Frenzel quickly established himself in Bavaria's Socialist Party, reached the Bundestag in 1953. But during his period of dickering with Benes, Frenzel apparently made written commitments that would have ruined him politically with other Sudeten Germans, who have settled in Bavaria in large numbers and comprise...
...place reeks of tent pegs and clean living," scoffs one critic about Scotland's famed Gordonstoun School. Founder Kurt Hahn, 74, is often accused of "Germanizing" British education. But as they met last week in London, 900 Old Boys of Gordonstoun took pride in more than the presence of a famed alumnus, Prince Philip, or the fact that Top People now clamor to get on the waiting list. Their real pride lay in the resolute character that they feel Gordonstoun gave them...
Ward, meanwhile, refused to concede. O'Connor capitulated shortly before midnight, but still Ward held firm. Volpe's victory speech, with a pledge to clean up and reorganize Massachusetts government, did nothing but make him more adamant...