Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps the most significant reaction came from a non-Teamster: the No. 2 man in U.S. labor, A.F.L.-C.I.O. Vice President Walter Reuther. Said Reuther in Detroit: "I believe that Mr. Beck's use of union funds to further his own personal investments is highly improper, inexcusable and morally indefensible." As for Brewster, Reuther said that if 10% of what the McClellan committee heard about his activities is true, he "is unfit to hold union office or any position of public trust." To guard against the occurrence of Teamster-type racketeering within his own United Auto Workers, Reuther announced...
Indicted by a federal grand jury in Washington last week: James Riddle Hoffa, 44, a vice president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, boss of the teamsters' powerful Central Conference, with headquarters in Detroit, and challenger to I.B.T. President Dave Beck. The charges, all based on Hoffa's offer of $18,000 and payment of $3,000 for documents filched from the McClellan committee files (TIME, March 25): 1) bribery, with a possible penalty of three years' imprisonment and a fine of three times the bribe total; 2) conspiracy, five years and $10,000; 3) obstruction...
...treaty signed in 1827, the government of Canada and its sovereign recognized the perpetual right of the Chippewa Indians to occupy their reserve on the banks of the St. Clair River, not far from Detroit, in what later became the city of Sarnia. Last week, in one of the biggest real estate deals ever closed in Canada, the Chippewas sold 2,768 acres of their ancestral domain to New England Industries of New York. Price...
...Wolfson actually intends to try unloading the automotive division, he can probably count on help from Sol A. Dann, a Detroit attorney who leads a dissident stockholders' group, has been in touch with Wolfson and says their programs for the company are similar. But Romney believes fervently in the future of the small car, thinks his Rambler and its British-manufactured Metropolitan (sales of both are up so far this year) will be the salvation of the ailing company. Said Romney: "I would be opposed to discontinuance of our automotive activities...
Unchecked Mate. In Detroit, Mrs. Jean Priest applied for divorce, told the judge her husband left the house in 1919, never returned...