Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...must our great nation lower itself to the position of consorting with thugs of Nikita Khrushchev's ilk? Since when did we condone oppression, murder, genocide and every other heinous crime known to civilized man by wining and dining the living symbol of tyranny? Why must we risk the integrity of our great nation by staking our Chief Executive to a game of poker with an opponent who is dealing from his own marked deck...
...official of the U.S.'s biggest and most powerful labor union: James Riddle Hoffa's Teamster Brotherhood (TIME, Aug. 31). in which he is president of Teamster Local 777 (taxi drivers) and boss of the Teamster joint council of Chicago. He has made crime pay exceedingly well. The Chicago Crime Commission estimated his rake-in from all sources-union salaries, business profits, kickbacks, extortion payoffs-at $70,000 a month...
...problems caused by the. blackout, it brought at least one strange and encouraging result. The blacked-out area included some of New York's toughest neighborhoods, where crime rates run high and the tensions of race and color flow easily into violence. Expecting the worst, Police Commissioner Stephen P. Kennedy kept 2,000 day-shift cops on overtime duty, sent prowl cars with loudspeakers through the streets to warn people to stay at home. But Kennedy need not have bothered: during the 13 hours before all the lights came back on, the crime rate plunged to almost nothing. Said...
Through the shot and shell of 2½ years of pounding by the McClellan committee, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters' President James Riddle Hoffa held hardest to his No. 1 point: Hoffa is an innocent victim whose only crime is that he gets good wages and working conditions for his "boys." Last week, in a special report to the Senate, the McClellan committee took dead aim on Hoffa's benevolence to the boys. Said the committee: "In the history of this country it would be hard to find a labor leader who has so shamelessly abused his members...
...House Judiciary Committee approved (by a reported 17-13 vote) a moderate version of the Administration's civil-rights program that would 1) make it a federal crime to block school desegregation by force or threat of force, 2) require local election officials to preserve for two years all records of election for federal offices and permit the Justice Department to inspect them, 3) extend the life of the federal Civil Rights Commission for two years beyond its expiration date next month. Earlier the committee (18-13) junked a proposed, tough section that would have empowered the Attorney General...