Word: convicted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pillows & Salve. Such brutality was plausible. Kierdorf had an arm-long arrest record, once served 27 months for armed robbery. On parole he had been made, at Jimmy Hoffa's insistence, a Teamster official like his ex-convict uncle, Herman Kierdorf (impersonating a federal officer, armed robbery), before him. As business agent of the 5,000-member Local 332, Kierdorf used brutal methods and produced satisfactory results. Once he tried to run over a stubborn employer. Said another: "You don't give him arguments." By brutal methods (see box) and by picketing until employers anted up money, Kierdorf...
...Government, as represented by the McClellan committee. It was the power of the Teamster Brotherhood, the U.S.'s biggest labor union (membership 1,500,000). Heid knew that testifying against Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa and his henchmen might bring ugly reprisals by Hoffa's ex-convict bullyboys. But with a pledge of protection by the committee. Heid huskily admitted that, under Teamster threats, he had perjured himself in 1956 by testifying in defense of a Minneapolis Teamster boss who was charged with blowing up the car of a rebellious fellow Teamster (and duly convicted...
...seven months since he elbowed flabby Dave Beck aside and took over as Teamster president, Hoffa has done nothing to clean the ex-convict thugs out of the Teamsters or sever the businesslike connections between his union and the underworld. Said Chairman McClellan to Witness Hoffa: "You have created an impression in the minds of some people that possibly one of the reasons you don't [act against the hoods] is because you are in the same category...
...Pinch. In San Benedetto di Verona, Italy, a circus crowd watched Strongman Giuseppe Armandola take on four members of the audience who came forth to challenge him, saw Giuseppe flatten two of them before the others overwhelmed him, soon learned that the winners were cops and Giuseppe an escaped convict...
...Limb. In Roehampton, England, when one-legged Convict Glyn Peters was taken to a hospital and fitted with an artificial leg, he followed the doctor's suggestion that he walk around and try it, sauntered right out of the building and escaped...