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Word: hoffa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...Hoffa's Affairs

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 15, 1958 | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

...paint Jimmy Hoffa's face black and send him to Arkansas? They will take care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 15, 1958 | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

...American people sit back and allow Hoffa and his gang to corrupt America's labor and laborer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 15, 1958 | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

...scandal-smeared Teamsters Union boasts no handsomer showpiece than Harold Gibbons, 48, international vice president and President Jimmy Hoffa's left-hand man. He has been to college, lectured at Harvard. A slim, fit-looking man. he dresses in dignified executive grey, parades a lofty moral code: "Business ethics aren't good enough for trade unions." But in just two days last week, Arkansas' John McClellan's Senate labor-rackets investigating committee stripped away the veneer, exposed Egghead Gibbons as blood brother to the purple-jawed hoods and goons who have filed before the committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Hard-Boiled Egghead | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

...Kicked out as president of Washington's Warehouse Employees' Local 730 after its treasury was looted by its officers in 1952, Baker joined up with Jimmy Hoffa, went to work in St. Louis for Hoffa Lieutenant Harold Gibbons. Baker's specialty: "belly bumping," i.e., using his gross girth to direct or obstruct picket line traffic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hoffa's Funny Friend | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

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