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Next to Jimmy Hoffa, there is no terrible Teamster whom Bobby Kennedy's Justice Department would rather put away than Anthony ("Tony Pro") Provenzano, 46, the chunky, highly paid boss of Local 560 in Hoboken, N.J. As counsel for the Senate Rackets Committee in 1959, Bobby himself first put the national finger on Tony by quizzing him about payoffs from trucking officials in return for labor peace. When court-appointed federal monitors supervised the Teamsters for a time, Provenzano was one of three officials they ordered Hoffa to fire. Instead, Hoffa elevated Tony to a vice-presidency...
Boastfully parading Hoffa's friendship Tony Pro beat back every challenge by Hoboken Teamsters who objected to his terrorizing rule of the local. When the dissidents met, bullets whizzed warningly past their meeting place. Tony's more outspoken critics were battered by thugs. With less than half of his 14,000 members turning out for elections, Tony kept winning. But last week he lost in a place where it really hurt: a federal courtroom...
...union. During the trial, Walter Glockner, 27, a Dorn driver, Teamster steward, and a Pro foe, got into an argument with one of Tony's relatives at a union meeting, knocked him to the floor. Next morning Glockner was shot to death as he left his Hoboken home for work. He died just a week before he was to have kept an appointment with Justice Department officials to tell what he knew about the local...
...perfectly good nails" from a broken sled and saved them for some vague future use? Who spent half the night looking for a 2? postage stamp she had mislaid? At a time when Hetty maintained a $30 million cash bank balance, she was living in two furnished rooms in Hoboken...
...make his point clear, Goodman narrated two chapters of his anecdotal novel about life in Hoboken. The first describes a high school English teacher whose sex life, Ph.D. thesis, housing problems, and concern for juvenile delinquency are all of equal importance to him, and all interact...