Word: greenbrier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This ain't my kind of place," growled Teamster Boss James Riddle Hoffa. His cold, hard eyes swept across the well-groomed grounds of the Greenbrier Hotel at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. He spat on the lawn. "We are paying the bill." he said, "but those intellectuals, those lawyers, picked out this place. This is their kind of place. They like to play golf and that stuff...
Jimmy Hoffa's top lawyers, 110 strong, were gathered at the stately Greenbrier last week for a three-day meeting "to figure out how we can live under this new law," as Hoffa put it. Hoffa's fight to emasculate the House labor bill had failed. Teamster Lobbyist Sidney Zagri's warnings of political reprisals had stirred more anger than fear on Capitol Hill. Now, confronted with the prospect that a tough bill might emerge from the House-Senate conference. Hoffa wanted his lawyers to help him find easy ways to evade...
...tournament named for him and played on his home course at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., aging (46) Sam Snead, one of golf's most brilliant (and most erratic) pros, tore the Greenbrier course apart, had eleven one-putt greens, posted a fabulous 59. Eleven under par, it was the lowest score ever recorded in a major golf tournament. Though he has blown big leads in his time, this one was too much for his competitors, and Snead coasted to an eleven-stroke victory...
...only one client hanged. Laird's parents left West Virginia for Keswick, Calif., where he was born. They died when he was five; Laird returned to Fayette County to be reared by his grandmother, aunt and uncle. The uncle, Dr. William R. Laird, adopted him. He attended Greenbrier Military School, King College in Bristol, Tenn., and West Virginia University, where he received a law degree in 1944 and made friends with a fellow student, Bill Marland. Marland, now 37 and governor of West Virginia. chose Laird to fill in after Senator Harley M. Kilgore died last month...
...healthful, sun-blessed desert." They also talk loftily of their policy of accepting only "selected guests." Last week the National Association of Attorneys General, which had planned to hold its annual convention next month in the Camelback, decided to meet in stead in West Virginia's famed Greenbrier Hotel. Reason: the Camelback's slogan of "Selected Guests" turned out to be a euphemism for "Hardly Any Jews Allowed...