Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...WHEN Detroit launched its 1958 models last November, TIME told of the hoopla and hope that attended their introduction in a cover story on Ford Vice President and Style Chief George William Walker, whose smile was as brightly gleaming as the chrome on his cars. But by May. when sales and production turned increasingly sour, so did the faces in Detroit as chronicled in a second cover on the industry's Big Three. With a clink of tools and a clash of cymbals this week, the production lines start up for 1959's new models-cars whose appeal...
Fear of hard-boiled Hoffa was evident in the behavior of witnesses called to testify about a $17,500 payoff that Detroit laundry operators handed over in 1949 to avert a threatened strike of Teamster truck drivers. Committee investigators had scraped up some persuasive evidence that at least $10,000 of the payoff had found its way to Jimmy Hoffa. Under questioning, Hoffa conceded that he got $10,000 in "loans" from the bagmen who collected from the laundrymen. but beyond that, his memory failed him. He could not recall any details about repaying the loans, nor could he produce...
Finding Hoffa uncooperative, the committee called up two Detroit laundrymen who had signed affidavits indicating that they thought at least part of the payoff went to Hoffa. But something had happened to make the witnesses wary. Obviously frightened, they shied away from their notarized affidavits, professed sudden doubts whether Hoffa really got any of the money after...
...From 1948 to 1956, Hoffa listed a total of $60,322 on his federal income tax returns under such vague categories as '"collections." Testified he: "My business associate in Detroit has some horses and he places some bets, and we are fortunate to win some money." Asked whether he had any records of the racehorse winnings, Hoffa said that his betting partner, Teamster Vice President Owen B. Brennan, kept the records. Called to the witness chair, Brennan avoided Hoffa's testimony, refusing to testify for fear of selfincrimination. Growled Chairman McClellan: "Is the taking of the Fifth Amendment...
...sort of migrant Middle Westerner, thanks to his father's job with the New York Central Railroad, which kept the family forever on the move, Jack Paar was born in Canton, Ohio on May 1, 1917. With time out for a stretch in Detroit, he did most of his growing up in Jackson, Mich. But wherever he went, his childhood memories are almost all somber ("I never had a childhood. I was born an old man"). When he was five, an older brother was killed by a car. All that comes back to Jack from his tenth year...