Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Detroit...
...Hoffa brought New York City Teamsters locals into the union in 1955, with the help of Gangsters John ("Johnny Dio") Dioguardi and Anthony ("Tony Ducks") Corallo, under low wages and poor working conditions. Hoffa authorized labor contracts in Detroit under which Teamsters Union car-washers got as little as $2.50 for a ten-hour...
...Hoffa's Detroit Lawyer George S. Fitzgerald, in 1955, accepted $35,000 in fees from a land company at a time when the Michigan Teamsters Health and Welfare Fund lent the land company...
...restaurant, cleaning business, barbershop, butcher shop, grocery store and department store on Chicago's South Side, a cafe in Harlem, a cafe and a farm near Atlanta, also bought himself a luxurious, 18-room house near the University of Chicago. He founded "Universities of Islam" in Chicago and Detroit (the latter accredited by the local school board through the ninth grade) to teach his dogma to children and teenagers. Sample from his official temple creed: "There is no good in white men. All are the children of the devil...
SINCE taking over at S.-P., Churchill has cut executive payrolls from $1,250,000 to $350,000, even reduced his own salary from $64,000 to $60,000 a year-peanuts by Detroit standards. Like other S.P. executives in South Bend, Ind., he occupies a small office amid a clutter of gingerbready desks, cheaply painted walls. He lunches in S.-P.'s small dining room; one of his favorite dishes is hash. His home life is just as plain. A man who cannot keep from.working with his hands, he rebuilt a loo-year-old farmhouse from a tumbledown...