Word: hoffa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Court Bars Hoffa...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14--James R. Hoffa, battling a barrage of federal court charges threatening to loosen his tight grip over the Teamsters, was barred today from taking over as the union's president...
...District Judge F. Dickinson Letts granted a New York Teamsters member group a 10-day restraining order against Hoffa from taking the reins from retiring Dave Beck...
...week's end, as the Teamsters trooped happily home, Hoffa made it clear that "every ounce of strength" meant the sinews of his own newly gained personal power. His first project was to centralize the power of the Teamsters' four loose-knit sectional baronies so that no one can question henceforth who might be the boss of the Teamsters. It's Jimmy Hoffa...
Whether the page would live up to its encouraging prospectus was for time to tell, but it got off to a brisk, bright start. Sharpened and punctuated with illustrations. Herald Tribune editorials subpoenaed the ghost of Joe McCarthy for a satiric soliloquy, thrice peppered Jimmy ("Public Enemy No. 1") Hoffa, cudgeled Yugoslavia's Tito and the New York City board of education, ranged more or less merrily from the World Series to San Marino to Jayne Mansfield's bedipitus. Other dewatermelonization steps: ¶ reprint of a radio essay by CBS Commentator Eric Sevareid reflecting on the recent...