Word: hoffa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...activities of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters in preparation for elections which were to be held during the following year. The IBT's success in organizing a group of employees at Cape Canaveral missile test center last week was not a catastrophic setback for the opponents of Jimmy Hoffa and Frank Brewster, but an appropriate final touch in the Teamsters' exhibition of the complete impotence of the reforming forces of organized labor...
...last two months the Teamsters have showed real evidence of renewed vigor in two major unionizing thrusts: one to take over Metropolitan police forces, the other to take control of workers in missiles and allied fields. Hoffa has backed away from his original stand that he would force unionization in every police force in the nation, but while his original position further damaged the unhappy reputation of the teamsters, within the union, Hoffa seems to have suffered little...
Last week the St. Louis Post-Dispatch uncovered a Wimpy-like scheme thought up by tough, well-tailored Harold Gibbons, boss of Teamster Local 688 (9,000 members) and idea man for Teamster Czar Jimmy Hoffa. A free spender who ran through $63,000 in hotel tabs and other expenses in three years, Gibbons has set up a Local 688 charitable foundation to channel money to the United Fund and other St. Louis charities. Where is the money coming from? As new Local 688 contracts are negotiated, each employer will be required to kick in a dollar...
After nearly three years of widowhood, Comedienne Portland Hoffa, 54, professionally zany co-player in Allen's Alley with her late husband, radio's raspy Satirist Fred Allen, announced that she would be married this week to an old friend. Adman and sometime Bandleader Joe Rines, 56, in the same actors' chapel where Chorine Hoffa and Vaudevillian Allen were married 32 years ago-St. Malachy's Roman Catholic Church on Manhattan's West Side...
...Yorker abroad, have just read your Jan. 12 article about Teamsters Feinstein and Hoffa's threat to force New York's finest into the union. If Police Commissioner Kennedy and Mayor Wagner would instruct their "finest" to pay a little "finer" attention to teamsters' traffic violations, I am sure this grandiose plan would fade very quickly. New York police have been coddling teamsters long enough by closing too many an eye in violation cases. Just let them get the same measure of tickets the average private New York driver is presented with - often unreasonably...