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...dire need of cash, he was rescued by the Teamsters Union, which proffered him a $2,000,000 loan. Soon after, he flailed the Kennedys for "railroading" the Teamster chief. Under the headline, GOD BARRED BY HOFFA'S JAILERS, he recently castigated prison authorities for returning devotional material that some nuns had sent to Convict Hoffa. He explained his own devotion to Hoffa. "As is this newspaper," he wrote, "the Teamsters are concerned with mercy, charity and helping the average citizen of the U.S. gain the highest possible living standards...
...that it could see nothing wrong with his acceptance of $160,000 in legal fees since 1961. While many Senators moonlight,* there were dark hints that Long had profited from his chairmanship of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure by accepting fees to help Teamsters Boss Jimmy Hoffa. Investigating a LIFE article on Long's finances, the ethics committee, made up of three Democrats and three Republicans, reported that its staff had questioned 33 witnesses, made four out-of-town trips, and had failed to find any connection between Long's Senate actions and Hoffa...
...federal court of appeals order directing an immediate speedup in the integration of all public schools. The court also refused to interfere with Pennsylvania's practice of transporting students to parochial schools, thus leaving for another day further practical definition of the line between church and state. Jimmy Hoffa will stay in jail because the court declined to reconsider its decision upholding his jury-tampering conviction. To Martin Luther King, another refusal to reconsider meant that he will probably soon go to jail for five days in connection with a 1963 civil rights demonstration in Birmingham that violated...
This has been a bad season for Washington institutions. Jimmy Hoffa has gone to jail, the House has thrown out Adam Powell, and taxation without representation in the District of Columbia is on the ropes...
...time may have passed when Congressmen could give lip service to ethical reform while waiting for public indignation to evaporate. Having already suffered through the humiliations of Dodd and Powell, Congress now faces an investigation of Missouri's Senator Edward Vaughan Long, whose financial connections with Jimmy Hoffa's chief counsel were recently disclosed by LIFE. "We cannot," says Williams, "let those charges go unanswered...