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...York, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. executive council found that the International Brotherhood of Teamsters was "dominated, controlled, or substantially influenced in the conduct of its affairs by corrupt influences," gave the Teamsters 30 days to root out the influences or be suspended, i.e., if Hoffa is elected president, the Teamsters' suspension seems certain...
Behind the mahogany doors, one morning last week, the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s five-member Ethical Practices Committee, chaired by greying Machinists' President Al Hayes, waited impatiently to hear what the hour-late Teamster chieftains had to say about charges that their union is dominated by "corrupt influences." Dave and Jimmy said plenty-but told very little. Reading off a wordy prepared statement, Beck said blandly that, after all, the "allegations" against him and Jimmy and other Teamster officials were not "of such magnitude as to support a belief that the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, as an entity...
Comedy or Truth? Gogol was a weedy little fellow with a tapir-like nose who was known at school as the "mysterious dwarf." His "spoilt and corrupt character" emerges like a combination of half a dozen case histories in abnormal psychology. He disliked making love to women, avoided his mother to the point of forging foreign stamps to make her believe he was living abroad. He was morbidly dependent on his friends' company. "Forget your wretched teeth." he wrote to a friend who wanted to go to see a dentist. "The soul is better than teeth...
...world he could not master. In 1835 he wrote what brilliant Novelist-Critic Vladimir Nabokov calls the greatest play in Russian. The Government Inspector. The conception, suggested to Gogol by Pushkin, was ingenious: a character is mistaken in a provincial town for an important government official, and the whole corrupt, incoherent Russian officialdom is exposed in apparently hilarious farce. Czar Nicholas I himself saw the play and is said to have remarked (roughly translated): "Everyone gets the business here. Me most of all." Gogol and his adored Czar thought it all comedy. But was it? The vein of unreality...
Ready Evidence. By the spring of 1949, Beria and Malenkov had the doctored evidence ready. Some of Zhdanov's lieutenants were charged with engaging in corrupt practices, others were accused of pursuing "their own economic policies." One after another, the Zhdanovites disappeared. Virtually the entire Leningrad party apparat led by Peter Popkov, Zhdanov's successor as city secretary, was silently liquidated. In Moscow the purge carried away a clutch of notables, including the youngest member of the Politburo, State Planning Boss Nikolai Voznesensky. Dozens were executed...