Word: hoffa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa has never won any prizes as the friendliest guy around. And he has been particularly surly during his current trial in Chattanooga on charges of jury tampering...
...looked as though he would be in town for quite a while, and so Jimmy Hoffa, 50, decided to throw the old weight around. Working out with bar bells in a Chattanooga, Tenn., Y.M.C.A., he started with relatively short, painless sessions. That, explained Instructor Bill Floyd, was because the hardheaded teamster boss was going a little soft in the gut. Hoffa will need all the exercise he can get. He's in Chattanooga for a federal trial (his fifth) on jury-tampering charges stemming from his fourth court appearance, and it promises to be a lively one. His attorneys...
...This," cried Jimmy Hoffa, "is one of the finest contracts ever negotiated in the U.S." For Teamster Boss Hoffa, it was also the fulfillment of a long-held dream: to bring Teamster locals under the umbrella of a single national agreement with truckers...
...protests that the contract would give the Teamsters the power of a nationwide strike that might amount to a stranglehold on the nation's economy, Hoffa offered sly reassurance. Such a national strike, he snorted, would only deprive him of his most potent weapon -playing off one employer against another by striking some while allowing others to operate...
Gibbons' move was not the only threat to Hoffa. He faces trial next month on charges of jury tampering in a Nashville conspiracy trial, another trial at a later date on charges of providing false information about $20 million in loans granted by the Teamsters' Central States pension fund in Chicago...