Word: hoffa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hoffa built a great mountain, His enemies started cavin' in Jim just smiled, and shook his head...
...proclaims a song called Hoffa's Blues, on sale on records last week in the lobby of the Miami Beach Auditorium. Inside, the 1,845 delegates to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters convention indeed rolled in for President James Hoffa just about all that he could wish-with the possible exception of his tormentors' heads...
Yelling, stamping, cheering, the Teamsters elected Hoffa, 53, to a third five-year term. By acclamation, they gave him a $25,000 raise, to $100,000 a year. They voted-with just one local representative opposed-$1,277,000 in union funds for the legal defense of criminally indicted officers, notably Hoffa himself. They also voted an amendment to the union's constitution that creates a general vice-presidency and provides for automatic succession to the presidency. Then they unanimously elected Hoffa's choice for the post: chubby, cheerful Frank Fitzsimmons, 58, Hoffa's loyalist supporter among...
...salary from $90 to $500 a month, launched the orchestra on tours of the world's concert halls. He is board of directors, chaplain, negotiator, booking agent and benevolent, all-round dictator all at once. In the band room the players jokingly refer to him as their "Jimmy Hoffa." Haftel, who draws a salary of only $70 a month more than the lowest-paid fiddler, has turned down several offers from major U.S. orchestras. His duty, as he sees it, is to remain as the orchestra's shamas (synagogue caretaker), keeper of the flame until Mr. Right comes...
...models-or press for a tougher bill making it mandatory for the Secretary to lay down such standards beginning with the '68 models. In support of the harsher version, the committee called up a succession of educators, lawyers, Canadian legislators-and even Teamster Top Dog Jimmy Hoffa, who found himself in the unusual position of being a sympathetic witness in a congressional hearing. Calling for strict Government safety regulations for trucks as well as cars, Hoffa said: "If you leave it to somebody's discretion to pass minimum safety standards, there wouldn't be any standards...