Word: hoffa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fred Allen met Portland Hoffa when she was a chorus girl in The Passing Show of 1922. They were married in 1927 in the Actor's Chapel (Manhattan's St. Malachy's Church). "Portland had been a herd thespian; as a member of the chorus she had participated, unnoticed, in group singing and bevy dancing," but Allen made room for her in his vaudeville act. Portland later became the perky, indestructible nitwit on Allen's radio show. Of the early days, Allen fondly recalls that she not only fed him jokes but also quantities of salmon...
...lower East Side, Dio at 20 was milking protection money from garment-district truckers, at 23 was sent to Sing Sing by Racket-Busting Tom Dewey, at 26 emerged to try new fields. Last spring District Attorney Frank Hogan charged Dio had been helping Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa in an attempt to control Manhattan teamsters...
...great that such a move could never begin, even if it ever did, the move would hopelessly split the unions wide open. Just recently, the AFL-CIO Longshoreman's Union called upon the parent organization to deliver an "ultimatum" to the teamster's union, run by James Hoffa, "to clean up their organization." There is too great a chance, however, that Hoffa might simply laugh and with his union, which is the nation's largest and most strategic, leave the ranks of the AFL-CIO as the old Longshoreman's Union...
...Hoffa admitted that John Dioguardia, a convicted New York extortioner, was a close friend of his. He said that he met Dioguardia several years ago in union meetings but now believes that his friend has no connection with organized labor...
Though stating that he was not trying to "take over" trucking in New York, Hoffa said that there was a need for further organization. If all trucking entering New York is not well organized, wage standards will break down. Trucks coming from the South where there are low wage scales have principally caused the problem...