Word: hoffa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jimmy Hoffa had to weather a temporary storm of Senate committee accusations, court injunctions, and ultimatums from the AFL-CIO to achieve one of the most powerful executive positions in organized labor, but his victory will come as a surprise to no one. One thing, however, is certain: Hoffa is now in a fight that started, rather than ended with his triumph at Miami Beach last week...
...Washington, concluding five more days of Teamster testimony, John McClellan's Senate investigating committee listed 34 instances of "improper activities" by Hoffa and associates. Among them: Hoffa himself stood to make a windfall from land at Sun Valley, Fla., which had been bought at $18.75 an acre, was being pushed to Teamster members as homesites at prices ranging from $150 to $550 an acre on false pretenses, i.e., they were assured roads and water facilities, but neither had been installed...
...York, a federal grand jury indicted Hoffa for perjury on the grounds that he lied five times during an earlier grand jury investigation of wiretapping at his Detroit office; Hoffa last May was indicted for the wiretapping...
...York, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. executive council found that the International Brotherhood of Teamsters was "dominated, controlled, or substantially influenced in the conduct of its affairs by corrupt influences," gave the Teamsters 30 days to root out the influences or be suspended, i.e., if Hoffa is elected president, the Teamsters' suspension seems certain...
...Miami on the eve of the convention, opposition candidates scurried about trying to throw up a stop-Hoffa united front. (One powerful new contender: Chicago Vice President William A. Lee.) But Jimmy Hoffa kept his pose as an unstoppable front runner, predicted confidently that he would win on the first ballot. Despite suits, threats of expulsion and all the revelations of the McClellan committee, it seemed, the Teamsters were still going to have the opportunity of replacing tarnished President David Daniel Beck with smirched and smirking James Riddle Hoffa...