Word: hoffa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What if we who receive or ship merchandise by Teamster-member unions refuse to do so if Hoffa is made president...
...sure let "Goon" Hoffa down easy in your Sept. 9 story. I suppose it was a case of "have trucks-will truckle...
Alas for the poor Senate anti-rackets committee when Teamster Vice President James Hoffa "swaggered into the McClellan hearing like a crowing cock into a coop of capons." The illusion is perfect, with the committee certainly discovering its impotence in the fray, but we'll bet our bottom forceps that Hoffa joins the capon ranks in no time. New Capon Hoffa, certainly economically "fattened for the table" (Webster), will join the docile when the committee leaves the roost for the chopping block...
...decided that it would be cheaper to slip a Dio mobster a few grand than to get stink bombs hurled into trucks or emery powder sneaked into motor oil. In recent years, armed with "paper local" labor-union charters obtained with the friendly conspiracy of Teamster Big Wheel Jimmy Hoffa, Dio collected wads of cash from employers in return for promising freedom from strikes, picket lines and other union nuisances...
There was one thing that Johnny Dio did not have to worry about. James Riddle Hoffa, who is about to be elected president of the most powerful labor union in the U.S., the 1,400,000-member International Brotherhood of Teamsters, had promised to help out Dio's family while he is in prison...