Word: hoffa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fingerprints quickly fingered "Doe" as Frank Henry Kierdorf, 56, bull-voiced business agent of Flint's Teamster Local 332 and one of Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa's 40-odd crooked business agents (i.e., personal representatives). Eventually, Kierdorf gave his own explanation of his burns. He was home alone in Flint, he said, when two workmen appeared, invited him to a secret organizing meeting. At their plea for haste, he tossed bathrobe over T shirt and trousers, climbed into their old Packard. Outside Pontiac, 40 miles away, his hosts stuck a gun at his neck, doused him with fluid...
...tragic demise of hardfisted, desperately needed labor legislation. In another part of the capital, Arkansas' John McClellan and his Senate investigating subcommittee continued to document graft, corruption and outright racketeering that led repeatedly to the nation's biggest unions, e.g., the powerful Teamsters, whose boss Jimmy Hoffa is deep in a plan to organize all U.S. transportation. In the face of such evidence there was plenty of blame to dodge as the Senate-passed Kennedy-Ives bill was entombed, apparently for all time, in the House Labor Committee...
...Teamsters," said Hoffa jubilantly, "attach sufficient importance to this [conference] that the cost will be underwritten by them if necessary." Grinned Jimmy: "Any time you're in trouble, Joe, we've got the money." Replied Curran: "Any time you're in trouble, Jimmy...
Stuffed Pockets. The fact is that Jimmy can take care of his own troubles. Acquitted fortnight ago by a Manhattan federal court of charges that he conspired to tap the telephones of his fellow Teamster executives, Tough Guy Hoffa is gaining new strength day by day. Teamster membership is up (to more than 1,500,000), and Hoffa is setting up deals right and left with A.F.L.-C.I.O. unions, such as the brewery workers, butchers and carpenters, the effect of which is to undermine the strength of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. He even has in mind calling a new Teamster convention...
...pockets thus stuffed with pacts, promises and big dreams, Hoffa, by his actions last week, made all the more prophetic the words of the McClellan committee report of 1958: Extraordinary power, "now lodged in the hands of a man such as Hoffa, [is] tragic for the Teamsters Union and dangerous for the country at large." And for James Riddle Hoffa, this was only the beginning...