Word: hoffa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With a mob of newsmen, lawyers and top Teamster officials trailing behind, chunky James Riddle Hoffa breezed into the spacious, glass-paneled lobby of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s Washington headquarters and disappeared through a pair of bleached-mahogany doors. Behind him waddled watery-eyed Teamster President Dave Beck. Symbolic it was that Ninth Vice President Hoffa unceremoniously pushed in ahead of his nominal chief. Dave Beck, his power dwindled, is No. 1 Teamster in title only, and he is scheduled to give up even that title to Hoffa when the union's convention meets in Miami Beach Sept...
...wordy prepared statement, Beck said blandly that, after all, the "allegations" against him and Jimmy and other Teamster officials were not "of such magnitude as to support a belief that the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, as an entity, is 'dominated . . . by any corrupt influence.' " Later on, Hoffa talked away for a couple of hours about gamy revelations that he hung around with gangsters and took dubious loans from businessmen. Afterwards it was plain from committee members' hints that Jimmy had put up a feeble defense...
After Beck and Hoffa departed, the Ethical Practices Committeemen huddled to work out the report they will present to the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Executive Council on Sept 24. That report will say that the biggest and most powerful U.S. labor union is indeed riddled with corruption. The Executive Council will probably approve the report and then, just before the Teamster convention in Miami Beach, warn the union to clean house or face expulsion from the united labor movement. To kick out nearly 10% of its members with one boot would be a painfully drastic move for the A.F.L.-C.I.O...
...Talked and They Listened." Once elected president of the Teamsters, Hoffa declares, he will make many changes for the better in the union's structure. There will, for instance, be token constitutional revisions aimed at transferring presidential powers to the executive board. But with President Hoffa in charge of the board, this modification will be only frilly window dressing. There will be more power over the financial affairs of locals from international headquarters, i.e., Jimmy Hoffa. In deference to the A.F.L.-C.I.O. leadership, Hoffa says that he will rid himself of all his private business interests. But he will...
What is the engine inside Hoffa that keeps him running so hard? The coal biter's son says a lot about it himself. 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? Did you ever hear of confidence? Did you ever hear of people accepting a man on his bond? At a meeting three weeks ago, I put out some pension checks for the first...