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Word: hoffa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Grinning like a bridegroom at his third wedding, Detroit's James Riddle Hoffa waited in Miami last week at the threshold of his highest ambition-presidency of the giant, 1,400,000-member International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Yet few prospective bridegrooms-and indeed few union bosses-had ever been the target of so many brickbats, bombshells and booby traps calculated to keep him from the church on time. Items...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Brickbats at the Threshold | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

McClellan Hits Hoffa Election...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: New Student Rioting in Warsaw Quelled by Police, Local Militia; McClellan Blasts Hoffa Election | 10/5/1957 | See Source »

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4--Sen. McClellan (D-Ark.) today called James R. Hoffa's election as president of the Teamsters Union a challenge to Congress to enact laws that will protect rank and file union members from "gangsterism and racketeer control...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: New Student Rioting in Warsaw Quelled by Police, Local Militia; McClellan Blasts Hoffa Election | 10/5/1957 | See Source »

McClellan said Hoffa will be recalled before the Senate committee but that no date has yet been...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: New Student Rioting in Warsaw Quelled by Police, Local Militia; McClellan Blasts Hoffa Election | 10/5/1957 | See Source »

MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Oct. 2--The Teamsters convention tonight overwhelmingly repudiated corruption charges leveled at James R. Hoffa, Dave Beck and other Teamsters bosses...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Saudi Arabia Asks 'Hands Off,' Blames West for Syrian Tension; Teamster Delegates Uphold Hoffa | 10/3/1957 | See Source »

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