Word: jointedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Trade Cooperation (he believed OTC would reduce tariffs, hurt his textile worker constituents) when he got some bad news. In Boston a federal grand jury indicted him on three counts of evading $38,542 in income taxes. In 1949, according to the indictment, Congressman Lane declared, on a joint return with his wife, an income of $14,311 when his actual income was $57,497; in 1950 he declared $20,991 when his actual income was $43,-198; in 1951 he declared $30,956 when his actual income was $50,470. Congressman Lane acknowledged the news with no wounded...
...Association beamed with delight as a guest speaker from Detroit rasped out an announcement of a cynical power play. The speaker: tough, chunky James Riddle Hoffa, a vice president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. His announcement: as part payment for a pact binding the teamsters and longshoremen to joint organizational drives and cooperative action during strikes, three regional teamster groups-the Central, Eastern and Southern Conferences-were prepared to lend the I.L.A. more than...
...Tobin as president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Hoffa was made an I.B.T. vice president. Since then Beck has watched with apparent helplessness while Hoffa expanded his sphere of influence. Not long ago, in a bid to get enough votes to control the teamsters' New York Joint Council, Hoffa quietly procured charters for seven small New York locals, dominated by convicted Extortionist Johnny Dio. Nor does Hoffa's ambition stop with control of the I.B.T. as it now stands. Ultimately, as his negotiations with the I.L.A. suggest, he hopes to incorporate the maritime industry in the teamsters...
Eisenhower has so far sidestepped these proposals by pointing out that he asked Congress in his State of the Union message to authorize a joint commission to investigate illegal discrimination in the South. The advantage of Congressional commission, according to the President, would be its power to subpoena witnesses and compel them to testify...
...holiday, to be called "March 17," will provide for a joint celebration of St. Patrick's and Evacuation Day, which commemorates the British withdrawal from Boston during the Revolution. It would be observed by a closing of stores and public offices...