Word: hickeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hoffa himself, when he was pushing into New York in 1954, tried to undercut New York Teamster Thomas Hickey by offering trucking companies better terms than Hickey - at the expense of the Teamster rank and file. In several states, Hoffa permitted trucking firms, against drivers' protests, to save money by paying drivers an extra 1¼ or 1½ a mile in lieu of more expensive fringe benefits. A confidential memorandum from an Ohio trucking executive reports a conversation with George Maxwell, head of the Steel Truckers Employers Association. Says the memo, photostated by McClellan committee investigators: "George told...
TRADING-STAMP BAN has been passed by Wyoming legislature, goes to Governor Joe Hickey for his approval or veto. Stamps are outlawed in Kansas and District of Columbia; other states have statutes that discourage use of stamps...
...Hickey comes bearing a new gospel--"beat the game of life" by trying to attain the consoling dream. Failure is sure, but the dream will lose its haunting power; failure will bring an end to torment and a perfect peace. The barflies find, however, that to abandon the dream is to die, and that Hickey's peace is the peace of death. The only way to play the game of life is against the usual, heavy odds. Harry Hope and his friends decide that Hickey is mad, and go back to the old life of torment and bad whiskey...
Edward Finnegan's Harry Hope is perfect; Judge Springer's Hickey--which is an even more difficult role--is very close to perfect. Edward Zang (Willie), Ralf Coleman (Joe) and Michael Lilenthal (Hugo) begin well and get better as they go along...
John Heffernan's portrayal of Larry, Hickey's foil, was more than adequate, although he did curious things with his face in moments of crisis. He and his crony Nick Smith (Don Parrit) were often hard to hear. The other half-dozen inmates were generally convincing, except Robert Foley's Jimmy...