Word: clevelandism
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...nation's largest union (current membership: 1.8 million) during the past quarter-century. Three- Dave Beck, Jimmy Hoffa and Roy Williams - were convicted of federal crimes. Now there is an argument within the Justice Department about whether prosecutors should continue to urge a fed eral grand jury in Cleveland to indict Jackie Presser, who succeeded Williams as president in 1983. The charge would be that as secretary-treasurer of Cleveland's Local 507, a post he still holds, Presser signed checks making large payments of union funds to "ghost employees" who did no work. Presser's uncle...
...week, however, the Los Angeles Times reported that since the 1970s, Presser has been passing information to the Federal Bureau of Investigation about Teamsters-related matters. TIME has learned independently that he has provided tips about other officials in his union to the FBI at secret meetings in Washington, Cleveland and San Francisco. Presser has previously been cited as a Government informer, notably in reports by two Internal Revenue Service agents...
...Cleveland, where he is a partner in the 366-lawyer Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, the city's top firm, Calkins seemed one of the city's leading liberal hopes of the 60s. He was elected in 1965 to a four-year term on the school board, and for a while, his reputation in the city was excellent and his opportunities seemed limitless...
...Calkins's experiences at Harvard and in Cleveland seem to parallel each other; voters lopsidedly removed him from the school board after one term, Harvard replaced Pusey with President Bok, and the Corporation gained new faces who seemed to reflect a new latent desire, both at Harvard and around the country for less visible, dynamic...
...original decision to move to Cleveland from Newton, where he grew up, and Phillips Exeter, where he graduated near the top of his class in 1941, was calculated to give him the opportunity to exercise his talents as a liberal activists. "I decided to practice law in a large representative city such as Cleveland," Calkins wrote in his class's 25th reunion report, "on the hunch that in this way I could find effective and independent involvement with whatever turned out to be the action and passion of our time...