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...Hoffa continued to crawl. He saw nothing wrong, he said, about the conflicting interests he had been maintaining; he admitted that a dishonest union boss might take advantage of business deals and loans made with employers of truck drivers, but fortunately for the Teamsters, Hoffa protested, he is an honorable man. But he could not recall, for example, where he had borrowed part of $20,000 that he had invested in one company; neither could he remember why he borrowed $5,000 from a businessman who had a Teamster contract...
Courts & Credibility. More astonishing than the committee's blockbuster statement was its closing-hour suggestion that Extortionist Dio provided Hoffa with secret miniature recording devices as well as recording experts. The machines, so ran the implication, may have been worn by witnesses who appeared at a grand-jury session during an investigation of Hoffa in Michigan. Afterwards, had the devices been so used, the witnesses would have carried out complete recordings of the proceedings...
...last week's proceedings were concerned, John McClellan announced that he would ask the Department of Justice to examine Hoffa's testimony for evidence of perjury. Courts have ruled that a sense of credibility must apply to "I do not recall," i.e., a major event in a man's life is not an incident lightly forgotten. Such an event might concern, say, the details of a $20,000 loan or the bugging of a grand jury room. Jimmy Hoffa's forgettery might turn out to be inconvenient after...
...president of the powerful International Brotherhood of Teamsters, angrily shrilling the Fifth Amendment and standing revealed as a man who would enrich himself at the expense of an old friend's widow. And last week there was Beck's heir apparent, Teamsters' Central Conference Boss Jimmy Hoffa, who was unable to "recollect" teaming with a union-busting racketeer to defeat the work of his own union. Beck, Hoffa and dozens of similar stripe were precious poor exhibits for Peter McGuire's better age and more chivalrous time...
...which organized labor lives and breathes. Just four years ago, the weight of political pressure was for softening the Taft-Hartley law in labor's favor. In fact, the notion of a tougher law seemed unthinkable. But in 1957 the U.S. saw how Dave Beck and Jimmy Hoffa used the nation's mightiest union to grasp for personal wealth and power. And in 1957 the role of unionism in a peacetime economy was called into question as rarely before. As of this week, there is no longer the slightest chance that Taft-Hartley will be softened-and there...