Word: hoffa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Teamster president James R. Hoffa has canceled his previously announced Nov. 5 address to the Harvard Law School Forum. In a telegram sent yesterday morning to the Forum, Hoffa said that his "heavy schedule" would not allow him to meet the speaking commitment...
...Capp and Walt Kelly will pose as Nixon and Rockefeller in "Republican Charades 1960," the first fall program of the Law School Forum, John S. Samuels 3L, said yesterday. The following program will feature James R. Hoffa, Teamster President, and a faculty panel...
...splendid when the Eager John is accompanied by its graceful satellite missile, the Joyful Jacqueline. The Eager John has a tendency to yaw between North and South, which appears at times to check its forward motion. No expense is being spared, however, in correcting these faults, and the familiar hoffa-hoffa-hoffa sound of the Eager John's mighty engines is certain to be heard in the land, one way or another...
...Jimmy Hoffa is ever crowbarred out of the driver's seat of the Teamsters Union, he need not fear for the future. Hoffa's predecessor, fat, easy-to-shove Dave Beck, faces trial on a charge of violating the Taft-Hartley Act and is sweating out appeals on convictions for income-tax evasion and grand larceny. But Seattle's Citizen Beck is too busy making money and enjoying life to worry too much about his problems...
Although a fifth still describe themselves as "conservative" in temperament, over half prefer the safe and evasive category of "moderate liberal." In addition, a sixth of the students appear willing to admit that they remain "politically indifferent." Neither Hoffa nor the "missile-gap" can arouse them from their lethargy. Apparently ignoring the dictum that "knowledge is power," these Political Indifferents fervently hope that "ignorance is bliss...