Word: hoffa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Paying Off. Instead of looking for experienced partners, who might have dissuaded him. Detroit's journalistic entrepreneur talked three buddies into joining him. Instead of appealing for funds to bankers, who would probably have turned him down, he appealed to Irving Hershman, a softhearted cousin with means. Jimmy Hoffa's perennially hungry teamsters helped out by agreeing to deliver Dworkin's nonexistent daily on a cash-and-carry basis. Detroit's job printers, who first sneered at Dworkin's proffered business, soon accepted it gratefully. From abruptly laid-off newspaper salesmen, the neophyte publisher...
...Union President Freeman Frazee tried to split the two struck papers by marching his men back to the Free Press but not to the News; the maneuver only further antagonized both papers, which bargain together, and Frazee's delegation was stopped by a padlocked pressroom door. Then Jimmy Hoffa put in his unsolicited 2? worth. If the papers could somehow publish without pressmen, said the Teamster boss, the truck drivers would deliver them...
Specifically, I do not feel that in your editorial you have sufficiently identified Keating with "homegrown mediocrity" and Kennedy with "imported excellence." Those identifications are, in fact, quite unfair. You mention Kennedy's intemperate pursuit of James Hoffa, and his sponsorship (now withdrawn) of a distasteful wiretapping bill: are these actions consonant with excellence? You gloss over his involvement with the New York City bosses: many other observers, however, have been very disappointed that no outright repudiation of bossism has been made. This situation smacks more of expediency than excellence. You state that "In no way has he (Kennedy) reneged...
...credit later repudiated) conflicted sharply with his strong support of civil liberties. Often he performed his role of Administration hatchet man with an excess of energy--particularly in his treatment of the executives responsible for the steel price rise and in his relentless, seemingly ruthless, drive to convict James Hoffa. But the assassination coupled with a period of introspection have left him more subdued...
...Hoffa's other headache is how to keep the control of his 1,700,000-member union. He figures to spend much of the next two years in appeals courts, and there have been noisy but thus far ineffectual rumbles of rebellion from Teamster locals across the U.S. "I think he should be man enough to resign," said Philadelphia's Teamster Vice President John Backhus. "He's done too much damage to the union's reputation." Nevertheless, when the 15-man Teamster executive board meets in two weeks, chances are remote that insurgents will be able...