Word: footpad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...started into an elevator. Then the smile vanished-and squat (5 ft. 5 in., 170 lbs.) James Riddle Hoffa, 44, one of the most powerful leaders of U.S. labor, stood frozen-faced while agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation closed in on him, frisked him like a common footpad, and took from him the onionskin document. The paper had come from the files of the U.S. Senate committee investigating labor racketeering (see below), and Jimmy Hoffa had paid dearly for it. It might, in fact, have cost him his spectacular career...