Word: hoffa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Labor: As a sponsor of last year's labor-reform measure, Kennedy can appear before non-labor audiences as a fighter against union corruption (a stance immeasurably helped by Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa's implacable hatred). Before farm audiences, traditionally hostile to labor unions, Jack benefits from identification with his younger brother Bob. the aggressive, much-televised counsel of the Senate's McClellan Committee and author of a briskly selling book about labor corruption, The Enemy Within, At the same time, Jack has tried hard to persuade labor leaders that he is organized labor's staunch...
...Thus, when Teddy was a brawny end at Harvard, every Kennedy became an expert football coach and traveled in T-formation to Cambridge on autumn Saturdays to watch him play. In Bobby's heyday as the grand inquisitor of the Senate McClellan committee, when he was making Jimmy Hoffa squirm, the clan became totally absorbed in the investigation, discussed it over every dinner table and every long-distance telephone call and beat a path to the white marble Senate Caucus Room. Even the in-laws are not immune to the sudden fevers: Bobby's wife Ethel, often accompanied...
...than four years, was haphazardly prosecuted by the Government; two of three original charges against Powell were thrown out during the trial when the government failed to support the charges. Powell himself was brilliantly defended by Attorney Edward Bennett Williams, attorney in the past for such defendants as Jimmy Hoffa, Frank Costello and the late Senator Joe McCarthy. After 26 hours of deliberation, the confused and divided jury (10-2 for acquittal) was dismissed, and Judge Frederick vanPelt Bryan recessed the case until May 12, when he will consider Lawyer Williams' request for a directed verdict of not guilty...
...collected a standard lecture fee, $500 and expenses, from the Teamsters for his Toledo talk. Then he made a fine distinction: the fee was paid by the local, not by International head quarters. Said Morse primly: "I wouldn't accept a fee from [Teamster Boss] Jimmy Hoffa...
...official groused that it was impossible to get Humphrey literature distributed in plants with Catholic shop stewards. But Kennedy worked hard for the labor vote, shaking hands at factory gates, attending shop meetings, cultivating labor's rank and file; he was doubtless helped too by Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa's foray into Wisconsin to carry on his vicious vendetta against the Kennedys. Kennedy ran well enough in the farm districts to prove that he has some farmer appeal but lost by enough to prove that he is vulnerable to Humphrey's pounding at his agriculture voting record...