Word: councill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Miami Beach's Eden Roc Hotel is suitably sumptuous for a display of the attributes of success, wealth and power. There, successful, wealthy, powerful Jimmy Hoffa conferred with the executive council of his corrupt Teamsters Union. It was a time for plans, expansion and confidence-not for worrying over the long, unchallenged record of Teamster racketeering dug up by Senator John McClellan's long-frustrated rackets committee. With his retinue of vice presidents, lawyers and investment advisers, jaunty little Jimmy worked on an 8 a.m.-to-1 a.m. schedule, spending lavishly, granting favors, hearing petitioners, mapping campaigns...
Airily, he put up collateral for a $200,000 loan for the striking A.F.L.-C.I.O. flight engineers of Eastern Air Lines-why shouldn't flight engineers be added to Jimmy's dream of a Teamster-dominated joint transport council? He heard requests for loans from four Miami Beach hotels, decided he would grant two. (The Teamsters already have $3,000,000 invested in fancy Miami Beach real estate and plan to double the sum.) He announced plans to organize employees of Sears, Roebuck and of Tampa breweries. Then came Jimmy's bombshell: he had already begun...
Under examination was a manifesto issued by the liberal-dominated Democratic National Advisory Council (among the members: Adlai Stevenson, Harry Truman, New York's Governor Averell Harriman and ex-Senator Herbert Lehman). The council urged greatly expanded federal programs in social security, health, education, agriculture, public works and welfare, area redevelopment and urban renewal, did not attempt to put a price tag on the proposals. Virginia's economy-minded Senator Harry Flood Byrd-no member of the council-did. His estimate: $5 billion or $6 billion a year...
Elected to the Council Tuesday at Winthrop House were Samuel A. Halaby '60, of Rochester, N.Y., junior representative, and Eugene Zagat '61, of New York City, sophomore representative...
Balloting for Student Council Representatives at Adams, Dudley, and Eliot Houses and the election to break the tie between Levon G. Kasarjian, Jr. '59 and Charles M. Needle '59 for Winthrop House member of the Permanent Committee will be in January...