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...witness in the packed, TV-floodlighted Senate Caucus Room trembled with fright as he told his story to stern-faced Senator John McClellan and the labor-management rackets investigating committee. What brawny ex-Lumberman George Francis Heid, 35, was afraid of was not the power of the U.S. Government, as represented by the McClellan committee. It was the power of the Teamster Brotherhood, the U.S.'s biggest labor union (membership 1,500,000). Heid knew that testifying against Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa and his henchmen might bring ugly reprisals by Hoffa's ex-convict bullyboys. But with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Fear Under Floodlights | 8/18/1958 | See Source »

...Living Hell." Heid was only one of several committee witnesses whose evident terror proved the Teamsters' power to punish and intimidate. Another Minneapolis ex-Teamster, Arthur Morgan, 43, wept as he told that threats and harassment made his life "a living hell" since he testified against Teamster brass before the McClellan committee a year ago. "Every night practically." testified Morgan, "the telephone would ring all night long, and my wife would get calls that asked if the children were home from school, and she would say that they are, and they would tell her, 'Maybe you are lucky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Fear Under Floodlights | 8/18/1958 | See Source »

Newest entrant into the College political arena is the local chapter of the National Republican Open Forum, organized last fall by William A. Rusher 1L. The club has so far heid three meetings on various aspects of current affairs, with the next of the series scheduled for late this month...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOP Forums Initiate Newest Member into Local Political Scene | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

...birds are wrong in proportion, action, color and anatomy as well as in the conventional classification of Audubon's time (particularly the flycatcher family). A genius, unwilling to allow any plate to be un-notable, Audubon often made his birds unrealistically spectacular. Critics perceive that Brasher has heId faithfully to the probable background and the actual bird, rarely permitting himself a flourish. Not a romantic naturalist, he has always gone straight to the nearest example of the bird he wanted. He sketched the golden eagle in the New York Zoological Garden, the valley quail in the Pittsburgh Zoo. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Painter of Birds | 9/12/1932 | See Source »

...HEID New Orleans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 24, 1930 | 2/24/1930 | See Source »

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