Word: hoodlum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leave Teamster Local 405 and join an independent union. The NLRB has not certified the result because of a challenge to six ballots, but rebel leaders are confident that the vote will stand. > In Chicago, where cab drivers and mechanics recently voted out a Hoffa pal, Hoodlum Joey Glimco, and his Teamster Local 777 as their bargaining agent in favor of a new independent union (TIME, July 28), two other Teamster locals are on the verge of revolt...
...Belsen and Dachau, where his wife and daughter were murdered. Surviving somehow, Sol escaped to the U.S. and prosperity; but at 45 he is a grey echo of a man. By day he shuffles about the dusty hock shop that he manages for a tax-wise hoodlum: by night, at the home he shares with his sister's family, he listens stolidly to the family's spoiled and petulant quarrels. On Sundays, he sits in the backyard, reading Chekhov and Tolstoy in Russian...
Ending a 25-year Teamster grip on Chicago's taxicabs was an uphill job. Local 777 has long been run as the private preserve of hard-eyed Hoodlum Joey Glimco, who is known around Chicago as "Jimmy Hoffa's Pal Joey." Glimco controlled not only the union but also the 48-local Teamster Joint Council and a fistful of "Windy City" rackets as well. His various activities earned him an estimated $70,000 a month...
...soon as the committee announced its aims, the money began rolling in. Cardinal Spellman gave $5,000. William D. Pawley, onetime ambassador to Peru and Brazil, contributed $25,000. Los Angeles' John ("Jake the Barber") Factor, a Prohibition-era hoodlum who got kidnaped by other hoodlums in 1933 and knows all about ransoms sent...
...under any circumstances, be an intervention in Cuba by U.S. armed forces," he said. "This Government will do everything it possibly can to make sure that there are no Americans involved in any actions inside Cuba." He pointed out that the Justice Department had just indicted Rolando Masferrer, onetime hoodlum leader of a pro-Batista strong-arm squad, for "plotting an invasion of Cuba from Florida in order to establish a Batista-like regime...