Word: hoffa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Promise. The new Hoffa story, as speedily laid out to a federal grand jury, began last Lincoln's birthday, when...
...years ruthless Jimmy Hoffa had thought and fought his way from a 32?-an-hour job as a warehouse worker to become a vice president of the mighty International Brotherhood of Teamsters and head of the I.B.T.'s Central Conference, with 500,000 members of about 340 locals in a twelve-state Midwestern empire. Moreover, he was in a position of deadly challenge to the Teamsters' aging (62) International President Dave Beck. Hoffa had run up a list of arrests, e.g., for brawling in a picket line, that he smilingly admitted was "as long as your arm." Even...
...little man tucked the paper in his inside coat pocket, shook hands and turned back to the hotel. Smiling to himself, he padded across the thick rug in the lobby and started into an elevator. Then the smile vanished-and squat (5 ft. 5 in., 170 lbs.) James Riddle Hoffa, 44, one of the most powerful leaders of U.S. labor, stood frozen-faced while agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation closed in on him, frisked him like a common footpad, and took from him the onionskin document. The paper had come from the files of the U.S. Senate committee...
Wall Street Lawyer John Cye Cheasty (rhymes with hasty), 49, got a long-distance phone call from an acquaintance, Attorney Hyman Fischbach, onetime counsel for a House subcommittee investigating crime in the District of Columbia. At Fischbach's request, Cheasty flew to Washington, where Fischbach explained that Teamster Hoffa needed some "special help" in connection with the McClellan committee's investigation. Hoffa, said Fischbach, wanted to plant an agent on the McClellan committee staff and Jack Cheasty, a former Secret Service agent, Internal Revenue agent, and naval intelligence commander (he retired in 1952 with a $5,500 disability...
There was still a lot of cockiness in Jimmy as he was hauled off to the U.S. Courthouse. There he got into a boisterous argument with Committee Counsel Kennedy about who could do the most pushups (Hoffa claimed 35, Kennedy more). But no one knew better than little Jimmy Hoffa the extent of his trouble. If convicted of any of several possible counts (and the FBI was keeping Key Witness Cheasty well-guarded pending the trial), Hoffa could be both imprisoned and fined. He could easily afford the fine and, all other things being equal, he was still young enough...