Word: hoffa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Talbott, for ousted Federal Communications Commissioner Richard Mack, and Government attorney in the successful 1954 ouster action against Atomic Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. Also helping write the statement was Sol Gelb, onetime assistant to New York District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey, and latter-day attorney for Teamsters Boss Jimmy Hoffa. Gelb, an expert at crossexamination, spent hours shooting at Goldfine the sort of questions the House subcommittee might...
Undaunted by explosive revelations of the McClellan committee investigations, unscathed by three recent court trials and small-bore insurgency in his organization, unabashed by proven connections with gangsters both in and out of his heavily muscled union, Teamster Boss James Riddle Hoffa bounced confidently into Washington last week and, with one single stroke of his fist, made the whole U.S. labor movement sit up and take notice...
...Hoffa's fisty proposal: a conference, to be held next month, of leaders of some 50 transportation unions, whose membership runs to 3.5 million. His aim: confederation of transport workers who cover not only trucking, but also the waterfront, the air, the railroads and even the underground. Such a powerhouse group, if organized in the Hoffa manner, would be a serious threat to George Meany's A.F.L.-C.I.O., and would create a union monopoly that could conceivably pull the switch on the U.S. economy at the whim of James Riddle Hoffa...
Appearing at a press conference with Hoffa and Bradley, Joe Curran, a strong-willed adversary of A.F.L.-C.I.O. President Meany, and a member of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Ethical Practices Committee that recommended the ousting of Hoffa and his teamsters last September, allowed blandly that the new pact "has no bearing whatsoever on the feelings of one member of a union for another. Anyway, lately I don't know what the A.F.L.-C.I.O. constitution provides. And I don't care...
...coverage of the Korean war for his reporting on the Little Rock story; Clark Mollenhoff, 37, of the Des Moines Register and Tribune, for stories on labor racketeering so well documented that they were used by Senate investigators as leads in the devastating exposure of Teamsters Jimmy Hoffa and Dave Beck...