Word: griffins
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...VANGEL GRIFFIN (371 pp.)-Herbert Lobsenz-Harper...
...every significant labor-management decision of the past decade, but who has never been a legitimate member of a labor union. As Secretary of Labor, he may have to make some difficult decisions, such as enforcing Taft-Hartley injunctions in strikes and using his police powers under the Landrum-Griffin law. But Arthur Goldberg has a profound belief in the law-and he plans to enforce...
With his canny knack for beating the rap, Teamster Topdog James Riddle Hoffa has survived 1) an A.F.L-C.I.O. expulsion order, 2) federal investigations of his income tax returns, 3) a pair of Justice Department prosecutions for wiretapping and bribery, and 4) the Landrum-Griffin labor law, which was written largely to unscrew Hoffa's hammerlock on most of the U.S. transportation industry. Just about the last hope of halting Hoffa is the three-man Teamster Board of Monitors, set up three years ago by a Federal court to keep the 1,650,000-member union at least reasonably clean...
...Glen, Genet's The Maids, David English's Waiting for Goodman, Robert Shure's Twink, Ionesco's Jack and O'Neill's The Rope. The production of the last-named was totally inept, but the rest were well worth a visit, with outstanding performances by Thomas D. Griffin '61 in the Beckett, golden-voiced Laurence M. Channing '63 in the Fry, and Anne Lilley '62 in the Genet...
...much himself to turn into a doctrinaire liberal. He did not take part in the abortive campaigns of such Senate liberals as Wisconsin's William Proxmire and Pennsylvania's Joe Clark against Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson. He provoked thunderclouds from labor by helping to write the Landrum-Griffin labor reform bill (Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa still calls it the Kennedy-Landrum-Griffin bill), and his horse-trading skill in a joint Senate-House conference blunted some of the bill's provisions but got it enacted into...