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Again and again. Hoffa. regally referring to himself in the third person, grabbed the initiative, freely accused Bobby Kennedy of "headline hunting." once grimly threatened to sue him for making anti-Hoffa speeches...
Little Black Book. The Teamster assault on the bill began with a grand gesture: invitations to all 435 House members to come, two dozen at a time, for breakfast at the Congressional Hotel. The host: Harold Gibbons, hard-boiled Hoffa deputy from St. Louis, who made his breakfasts politically tasty by flying in union leaders from the home regions of each day's new group of House guests. No fewer than 245 Congressmen heard Host Gibbons introduce Persuader Zagri as his own "community relations" expert from St. Louis. "We are not against legislation," said Zagri smoothly, "but this bill...
...picket lines. Scheduled for final committee vote this week-and near enough to the Senate version to have a good chance of becoming law-the labor reform bill was a stronger piece of legislation than it would have been without Zagri's efforts. By sending in his persuader, Hoffa gave Congressmen a personal taste of his tactics, apparently firmed up their resolve to do something about them...
Teamsters Boss Jimmy Hoffa did his personal bit to uphold his union's reputation last week as he barked through an eight-hour sitting before Arkansas' John McClellan's labor rackets committee, chewed out a torrent of words that filled almost 400 pages of transcript. When he was finally excused. Boss Hoffa walked out of the hearings no more damaged-and not a whit nearer to respectability-than when he first sat down...
...long session was the committee's last go-round with Hoffa (unless it should dredge up some new evidence). It held particular importance for the Brothers Kennedy-suntanned Committee Counsel Robert, whom Hoffa detests, and Massachusetts' Senator John, who had hoped that a fresh public examination of Hoffa's questionable dealings might help his labor bill along in the House-a matter of increasing urgency since Hoffa is now mulling over the idea of creating a nationwide "council" of transport workers with the help of Red-tinged Harry Bridges of the West Coast International Longshoremen...