Word: henchmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Libby will bring to Capitol Hill a longtime friendship with the racketeers who lurk in the background of the West Side's ward politics. A pal of the late underworld overlord Al Capone, Libonati is still on chummy terms with former Capone henchmen such as Tony Accardo and Paul ("the Waiter") Ricca, who are really "charitable" and "patriotic" fellows, according to Libby. During his two decades in the state legislature, Libby opposed legislation urged by the Chicago Crime Commission, backed bills that gamblers also liked. One piece of legislation paid off nicely: after Libby helped put through a bill...
Disheartened, demoralized and disillusioned with the ineffectual leadership of Erich Ollenhauer and his doctrinaire henchmen, West Germany's Social Democrats have had little to cheer about since their sweeping defeat by Konrad Adenauer two months ago. But last week the Social Democrats plucked up new courage. In Hamburg, the federal republic's biggest city, they turned out the Christian Democratic coalition administration and won election by the biggest political victory in their party's 100-year history...
John McClellan's Senate investigating committee, which has just prepared a long list of "improper activities" by Hoffa and henchmen, is another of the Teamster president's more peaceful opponents. The situation here is a particularly frustrating one for McClellan and his committee, for they are convinced, along with the rest of the nation, that Hoffa is a corrupt labor leader who should have been locked up long ago. He has gotten off the hook once already and the Committee well realizes they cannot afford to let him get away again. If he did, public opinion would certainly begin...
...managed to pin a hard rap on him since he served three years in Sing Sing for extortion back in 1937-40. Last week the law pushed over Johnny Dio's well-stocked applecart. In Manhattan, a General Sessions Court judge sentenced Dio and two of his henchmen, Max Chester and Samuel Goldstein, to two years' imprisonment and a $1,000 fine apiece. Their offense: conspiracy and bribery in taking $10,000, plus a promise of $20,000 more, from the proprietors of two electroplating firms in 1955 and 1956 as the price of a worthless guarantee...
...Khrushchev and swelled the Presidium's vote to 7 to 4 against him, Mikoyan backed the party's First Secretary and proved to have followed the right hunch. Within 48 hours Khrushchev, using his party machine in exactly the same fashion as Stalin did before him, summoned henchmen from all over the Soviet Union to a Central Committee Plenum that reversed the Presidium decision...