Word: hoffa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Teamsters Boss Jimmy Hoffa might not win any national popularity contests. But when it comes to elections within his union, he is usually unbeatable...
...latest anti-Hoffa effort came last week in the Philadelphia area, where a group of rank-and-file rebels sought to win a National Labor Relations Board election, take 8,000 members of Local 107 and three other locals out of the Teamsters and into the A.F.L.-C.I.O. The Hoffa forces were headed by ham-fisted Raymond Cohen, 55, for eight years 107s secretary-treasurer. Last August, it took more than 100 Philadelphia police and firemen to break up a pitched battle between the rebels and Cohen's followers. Since then, rebel leaders say their cars have been bombed...
...slip-ups along the way. Ethel sent a shoe-box full of index cards for the guest list to Mrs. David Ginsburg, ticket chairman. Mrs. Ginsburg was slightly surprised to see "Trigger Mike" Coppola and "Tony Ducks'' Corallo on the list. And when she saw the name Hoffa, she "knew something was wrong." Indeed there was. Ethel had picked the wrong shoebox-the one with the cards compiled by Husband Bobby while he was counsel for the Senate's McClellan committee, investigating labor racketeering...
...When the unions throttled the city's two newspaper voices, they clearly miscalculated management's means−and wil−to resist. The papers simply refused to cave in. In dealing with the holdout Teamsters, the Star and Tribune proved just as stubborn as Hoffa...
Edward Bennett Williams should have a good book in him about his spectacular career of defending some of the most violently unpopular of public figures. At 42, Williams has made upwards of $150,000 a year for standing between an aroused society and the likes of Jimmy Hoffa and Frank Costello. In times past, Williams has taken on various branches of the U.S. Government in behalf of Senator Joseph McCarthy, David Beck, Bernard Goldfine, allegedly Communist Hollywood writers and Confidential Magazine. But Williams has chosen instead to devote his first book to fervent advocacy of the cause that, he says...