Word: coops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alas for the poor Senate anti-rackets committee when Teamster Vice President James Hoffa "swaggered into the McClellan hearing like a crowing cock into a coop of capons." The illusion is perfect, with the committee certainly discovering its impotence in the fray, but we'll bet our bottom forceps that Hoffa joins the capon ranks in no time. New Capon Hoffa, certainly economically "fattened for the table" (Webster), will join the docile when the committee leaves the roost for the chopping block...
This was a smashing comedown for James Riddle Hoffa. Only 77 hours earlier he had swaggered into the McClellan hearings like a crowing cock into a coop of capons. At first he had arrogantly demanded permission to edit and change the records of the hearings-a barefaced attempt that would enable him to square his imminent testimony with later established fact. For a while Hoffa had even seemed to be in charge. He led Michigan's bumbling Democratic Senator Pat McNamara, Arizona's Republican Senator Barry Goldwater and New York's Ives down a primrose path. There...
...Coop of Capons. The man who thus stood indicted by the McClellan committee seems on his way to election next month as the president of the 1,400,000-member International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which-with strategic control over truck transportation-has enormous economic power in the U.S. The point worried members of the McClellan committee. Asked New York's Republican Senator Irving Ives: "What are you going to do after you are elected, if you are elected? You have consorted with all of these bums and these criminals and everything else throughout your career practically. Are you going...
...generally, the year had a pleasant beginning. The Student Council discovered it had paid its debt, the University was permitting students to cut classes the day before and after vacations, and students could buy crimson and white Corona Portable typewriters with "H U" on them at the Coop. Kellogg's All-Bran was prescribed (by the Kellogg Company) as the way to end the "widespread evil" of constipation causing most of the ill health which harms effective studying. The little Psychological Clinic was forced by the needs of House Plan Unit No. 1 to move from 19 Beaver Street...
...anonymous Coop salesgirl says that last Christmas' most popular gift, cocktail sets, are being outsold by smoked glassware and electric frypans...