Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hoffa's good friend Judge Joseph A. Gillis of Detroit's recorders court, received $100 a week for 13 weeks as "adviser" for a Teamster TV program, got an extra $6,200 for his re-election campaign. Later, the judge presided over Teamster extortion trials...
...shape for the World Series. In the ensuing comedy of errors, one gumshoe (he was actually wearing gum-soled shoes) shadowed Star Pitcher Bob Turley for three days and discovered Turley seldom drinks anything stronger than soda pop. A group of Yankees led detectives a merry chase all over Detroit on an innocent quest for popcorn at the Y.M.C.A...
Files and folders tucked in his arm, Detroit Labor Lawyer George S. (for Stephen) Fitzgerald, 56, strolled into the McClellan committee's high-ceilinged hearing room last week, as he has most days since the committee began to grill Teamster President James Riddle Hoffa and half a dozen Fitzgerald-represented Hoffa lieutenants. But this time the beet-faced, bulge-bellied barrister plopped himself not in the customary attorney's seat but in the red-leathered witness chair. For two days Witness Fitzgerald (without counsel) angrily denied that he had been furtive or unethical in carrying out sometimes strange...
Watch the Watchers. No lawyer has done more yeoman service for Hoffa than George Fitzgerald, a onetime Wayne County (Detroit) crime-busting prosecutor, onetime Michigan Democratic national committeeman, onetime defeated candidate for lieutenant governor (who got a $43,000 Teamster donation to his campaign chest). When the Internal Revenue Service bird-dogged Hoffa's tax returns, Fitzgerald suggested that Jimmy's accountant "get rid of" Hoffa's net-worth statement. When a Washington jury panel was called for Hoffa's bribery trial (TIME, July 29, 1957), Fitzgerald hired an investigator to investigate the jurors. Similarly, while...
MUTUAL BROADCASTING, with 448 affiliates in the U.S., has been taken over by Scranton Corp., controlled by Detroit's F. L. Jacobs Co., auto-parts maker. Scranto'n paid more than $2,000,000 to syndicate headed by Los Angeles Oilman Armand Hammer, which bought Mutual for about $660,000 last year...