Word: hoffa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jimmy Hoffa has a standing invitation to appear at the Forum, Goldey added. Hoffa has said recently that he "would like to come," although he has twice broken past engagements to speak here and cancelled a speech at the Ford Hall Forum in December...
...nuptial marathon that blended Hamtramck zest with Grosse Pointe catering, Barbara Hoffa, 23, green-eyed daughter of Teamster Boss Jimmy, married Robert Crancer, 24, son of St. Louis' Valley Steel Products Co. President Lester A. Crancer. After a Methodist ceremony, Mother Josephine Poszywak Hoffa called the shots according to the traditions of her Polish ancestors. Beginning with a 2 p.m. wedding breakfast-filet mignon and champagne for 300 at Detroit's Latin Quarter-the festivities continued with a 6 p.m. reception at which 750 guests danced to the music of a polka band and gorged on such delicacies...
Mediating between militants who itched to wage a raiding rumble on Teamster turf and a growing number of appeasers ready to welcome Jimmy Hoffa back into the fold, A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany offered readmission without "head busting" to Hoffa dissidents who have seen the light. As for Jimmy himself, Meany charged that the Teamster hierarchy was "more than ever under the influence of corrupt elements," would continue excommunicated until Hoffa "does as Saul of Tarsus done-go off into the wilderness for a year and repent...
...James R. Hoffa, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamaters, has postponed the speech he was scheduled to deliver at the Law School Forum tonight. Hoffs will probably speak at the Forum some time in January...
...Goldberg also recognizes the immensity of labor's problems. He makes no bones about the fact that Jimmy Hoffa is a menace to the labor movement. But he is "confident that Hoffa will eventually be repudiated by his own members." Goldberg insists that unions must accept automation as a fact of life, but he also insists that management must help retrain workers who have been displaced by automation so that they can become useful members of the new la bor force...