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Ending a 25-year Teamster grip on Chicago's taxicabs was an uphill job. Local 777 has long been run as the private preserve of hard-eyed Hoodlum Joey Glimco, who is known around Chicago as "Jimmy Hoffa's Pal Joey." Glimco controlled not only the union but also the 48-local Teamster Joint Council and a fistful of "Windy City" rackets as well. His various activities earned him an estimated $70,000 a month...
...rural strongholds. The campaign itself was a bit fuzzy, since both candidates are solidly conservative. Stephens, a former Byrd disciple, had even written to the Senator last December seeking the support of his onetime boss. But the primary did make one thing clear: if Harry Byrd is losing his grip, no one has told the voters of Virginia...
...fled to Moscow for asylum from Hitler. Ulbricht was apparently happy to see his political rivals disposed of. In May 1945, it was Ulbricht who led the little ten-man convoy of Communist leaders into war-torn Berlin to start the regime that today holds East Germany in a grip of iron...
...country lawyer, Fanfani learned his political arts hopping from ministry to ministry under the late Premier Alcide de Gasperi, acquired such a grip on the Christian Democratic Party reins that De Gasperi once complained: "If I appoint him Minister of Industry, I am sure that some day, on opening the door to my office, I'll find him sitting at my desk." Fanfani did just that, but only after De Gasperi was ailing and in semiretirement. Fanfani's first premiership lasted only eleven days in 1954, his second for a frustrating 210 days that ended in 1959 when...
Spending more dollars in Latin America is at best an iffy way of fighting Castro. Are more direct means available to the U.S. for breaking the Communist grip on Cuba? One possibility lies in the Monroe Doctrine-President James Monroe's 1823 warning to "the European powers" that the U.S. would "consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety...