Word: hoffa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Teamsters Back Hoffa...
...quote Mr. Hoffa, concerning the recent Detroit newspaper strike, as follows: "In Detroit's recent newspaper strike, at 3 a.m. in the morning three editors came to see me, and we worked things out. I talked and they listened. Can you imagine how it feels to have men like that listen to reason?" This is categorically untrue. Not one Detroit newspaper editor, or managing editor, or city editor met with Mr. Hoffa the night the strike ended, or at any time during the strike. Labor reporters from all three Detroit newspapers covered all meetings and talked with Hoffa...
...noticed that your Hoffa profile conveniently ignored the well-known fact in Michigan that good ole Jimmy Hoffa is a power in the Michigan Republican Party...
...Hoffa has played both sides in the past, now is (or was, pre-McClellan) a man of influence among Republican politicians in Michigan's big Wayne County (pop. 2,870,400) on the county and city (Detroit) level...
...journalists flit all over, like the technically muscle-flexing Wide, Wide World, or work in a simple star chamber, like Interviewer Mike Wallace. On too rare occasions, the newsmakers themselves step before the cameras: Kefauver dueling with a faceless Frank Costello, John McClellan patiently at work on Teamster Jimmy Hoffa and his voluble forgettery. Daily, the networks pour money, manpower, miles of cable and film into an often losing race to outdistance the spoken word...