Word: hoffa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eroding Power. Nonetheless, the public prestige and political power of big labor have steadily eroded in the past seven years. The machinations of such union bosses as the Teamsters' Dave Beck and Jimmy Hoffa have tarnished the image of the crusading labor leader. Admittedly, during the 1964 campaign, Lyndon Johnson valued union support sufficiently to commit himself to repeal of 14(b). But, well aware that few Americans these days are impassioned over Taft-Hartley, the President did little to push his bill on Capitol Hill...
...There she had intercourse with five of the jurors. She was paid a total of $100 by a bellhop, who told her that he got the money from "the marshal." At one orgy involving marshals, three jurors and two or three other girls, she recalled, a marshal, referring to Hoffa, said: "We've got the cocky little bastard now, right where we want him." Bobbie Sells swore that when she showed up after a call from a bellhop, a marshal told her to identify herself as a "lady marshal" if anyone asked why she was on the tenth floor...
Spicy Recollections. With high moral indignation, Hoffa's lawyers went into Chattanooga Federal Court with affidavits from three prostitutes, describing their activities during Hoffa's seven-week trial in early 1964. The hooker with the most vivid memory was Marie Monday, 22, of Oliver Springs, Tenn., who told of meeting U.S. District Judge Frank W. Wilson twice during the trial at Chattanooga's Read House hotel, where the jurors were quartered. She accused Judge Wilson of no hanky-panky, but declared that at their second encounter, the judge told her that because he was "in charge...
...until next week to file its brief against a new trial. Meantime, FBI agents have been scurrying around Chattanooga questioning everyone named in the affidavits. The Justice Department plans to ask a Tennessee federal grand jury now in session to investigate charges of "massive perjury" in connection with Hoffa's latest -and gamiest-bid to stay out of jail...
...first, based partly on bellhops' testimony that they had seen "a lot of drinking going on" among the jurors, was denied March 1964. The second, in which Hoffa charged that the Government had planted a spy in one of his lawyers' offices, was denied last April...