Word: hoffa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most corrosive problem at Unity House-and one of the worst in labor's history-was union corruption, especially in Jimmy Hoffa's racket-ridden Teamsters Brotherhood. Exposures by the Senate's McClellan Committee had tarnished organized labor's repute, slowed recruitment of union members, and forced upon A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany the painful job of expelling the Teamsters, the Bakery Workers and the Laundry Workers, thereby reducing the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s membership...
...Ordered all A.F.L.-C.I.O. unions to cancel "any alliance, agreement, formal or informal," with Hoffa's Teamsters...
...outside his tentlike coat. His lawyers had urged him to take the Fifth Amendment. But Baker decided to clown his way through a performance aimed at concealing a grimly important fact: Barney Baker is just the sort of specimen used by his friend and employer, Teamsters' President James Hoffa, to control the nation's biggest, most predatory union...
...gasped happily at hearing that Barney Baker, at separate sittings, had devoured 4 Ibs. of spaghetti and 38 Ibs. of meat. There were titters when Baker explained his philosophy for talking to cops: "Little white lies don't mean nothing, not when you are not under oath." Jimmy Hoffa, sitting in the audience, was convulsed by his pal's antics. And even Arkansas' dour John McClellan turned his head to hide a smile when Baker was being questioned about his murderous old pals on New York's waterfront...
...organizer for Hoffa's Central Conference of Teamsters, Baker visited Miami, there lavished $25,000-in Teamsters Union funds, naturally-on a house, swimming pool and Buick for his doxy. Since 1953 Baker has spent $2,200-also in Teamsters' money-for sanitarium treatment that brought his weight down from 420 Ibs. to an oafish...