Word: hoffa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...president of the powerful International Brotherhood of Teamsters, angrily shrilling the Fifth Amendment and standing revealed as a man who would enrich himself at the expense of an old friend's widow. And last week there was Beck's heir apparent, Teamsters' Central Conference Boss Jimmy Hoffa, who was unable to "recollect" teaming with a union-busting racketeer to defeat the work of his own union. Beck, Hoffa and dozens of similar stripe were precious poor exhibits for Peter McGuire's better age and more chivalrous time...
...which organized labor lives and breathes. Just four years ago, the weight of political pressure was for softening the Taft-Hartley law in labor's favor. In fact, the notion of a tougher law seemed unthinkable. But in 1957 the U.S. saw how Dave Beck and Jimmy Hoffa used the nation's mightiest union to grasp for personal wealth and power. And in 1957 the role of unionism in a peacetime economy was called into question as rarely before. As of this week, there is no longer the slightest chance that Taft-Hartley will be softened-and there...
Walter Philip Reuther, 49, the redheaded boss of the 1,500,000 United Automobile Workers and vice president of the 15-million-man A.F.L.-C.I.O., remained utterly aloof from the tawdry discourse about Jimmy Hoffa and Johnny Dio going on in Washington. Instead, the U.A.W.'s Reuther chose to initiate a new public debate, not about labor corruption, but about economics. Aware of public concern about inflation, Reuther astutely proposed that the big three automobile makers cut prices on 1958 models by $100 or more below 1957 prices, whereupon his union would give "full consideration" to lower company earnings...
...close (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Since the Senate's modern 18-day morality play began, Du Mont Broadcasting Corp. has been bombarded with 10,000 such letters and thousands of phone calls. Three people twitted Du Mont because Liberace had been shoved aside by Johnny Dio and Jimmy Hoffa; but in most bars across the Eastern Seaboard, tipplers clamored for the racket-busters over baseball. Even though she was seated a few yards behind the witness chair in the packed Senate caucus room, pert, brunette Ethel Kennedy, wife of Bob, was glued to a portable monitor set. "You can check...
...Detroit, after a weeklong, citywide newspaper strike, the independent Mailers' Union agreed to go back to work after Teamsters Union Vice President James R. Hoffa flew back from Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) to negotiate a settlement. The mailers, locked in a jurisdictional dispute with the I.T.U., had closed all three Detroit papers with support from Hoffa's teamsters...