Word: hod
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Artifacts of Achievement. For six triphammer days, while Premier Nikolai Bulganin traveled in genial, flower-showered near-silence at his side, the chief of Russian Bolshevism carried the brick-loaded Red hod through Burma. He heaved some bricks at the West, crashed others through the plate-glass facts of history. Some he carefully mortared into the structure of Communism's new policy in Asia. All in all, he must have accounted it a good week's work. The Burmans had not displayed the tumultuous enthusiasm of the Indians, but when the pair left Rangoon to return to India...
Evan R. Dale, 38, is a chunky labor leader who has shouldered his way to the top of the A.F.L.'s Southern Illinois Hod Carriers, Building and Common Laborers Union. He likes to wear wide-brimmed hats, collect expensive shotguns, throw parties at his hunting lodge. He also likes to mix in politics; in 1952 he was a labor consultant to the Republican National Committee...
Labor Boss Dale's biggest chance to show his muscle came in 1951 after Joseph V. Moreschi, president of the hod carriers union, made Dale the union spokesman for a pool of 38,000 construction laborers building power plants at Joppa, Ill. and Shawnee, Ky. for AEC's A-bomb plant near Paducah, Ky. Teaming up with James Bateman, 63, who ruled the Joppa plant's pipe fitters, Dale lost no time in calling on the Joppa plant's major contractor, Ebasco Services Inc., a subsidiary of Electric Bond and Share Co. Pointing out that...
Steamfitters' local, tried to collect $50,000 from a contractor building a $5,000,000 pipeline. In another story Baldwin told how A.F.L. Hod Carriers' Boss Paul H. Hulahan was involved in a similar shakedown. He also dug up evidence that union "expense" money was often unaccounted for by union leaders. The zealous P-D kept firing away in Page One stories, backed up Reporter Baldwin with biting editorials and cartoons. Baldwin's notes and P-D stories were turned over to House and Senate labor committees, the FBI and the Justice Department...
...leaders, industrialists and politicians paid him homage. (Once Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City welcomed him home from a European trip with a chartered boat and the Jersey City police band aboard.) But Joey got into trouble: in 1945 he and his pal Jim Bove, vice president of the Hod Carriers Union, got 7½-to-15-year prison stretches for conspiracy to extort $368,000 from contractors for New York City's $300 million Delaware aqueduct. When the iron doors of Sing Sing clanked behind him, the public assumed it had heard the last of Joey...