Word: hoffa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHEN Attorney General Bobby Kennedy won the conviction that sent Teamsters' boss Jimmy Hoffa to prison, many people wondered whether blind justice hadn't been waylaid in favor of a grudge. The word was that Kennedy had a vendetta and that it was selective justice that had put Hoffa away...
...this 20-year member of "Jimmy's own" Local 299 in Detroit check in with a discordant note amid the jubilation over news of Hoffa's release [Jan. 3] by your Man of the Year...
...that James R. Hoffa remains "tremendously popular" with rank-and-file Teamsters may or may not be true, but it overlooks many of us who long ago rejected-and have actively opposed-his autocratic brand of unionism...
FLORIDA was packed with seasonal celebrities last week-everyone from President Nixon and West German Chancellor Willy Brandt to Jimmy Hoffa and Moms Mabley. Hotel rooms in Miami were solidly booked with fans who had come to watch the Orange Bowl game as well as the playoff between the Miami Dolphins and the Baltimore Colts. The Sunny Palm Lodge, a nudist colony, reported a 25% increase in business over last year. Amid all the hoopla, the big political event of the week was the arrival in Miami of New York's newly Democratic Mayor John Lindsay, who announced that...
...Administration openly struck one bargain with Hoffa: his commutation requires that he "not engage in the direct or indirect management of any labor organization prior to March 1980." By then, he will...