Word: laborings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hoffa, since 1950, authorized payment of $3,000,000 of Teamsters Health and Welfare Fund money to the fund's insurance brokers in fees and commissions. The brokers were the wife and son of Paul Dorfman-"the corrupt labor leader who introduced [Hoffa] to Midwest mob society." The Dorfmans had no experience in insurance, and no office space "until a few months before Hoffa successfully maneuvered the insurance business to them early...
Summed up the report: "The committee is convinced that if Hoffa remains unchecked he will successfully destroy the decent labor movement...
Using local labor wherever possible, the oil camps have given employment to 20,000 Saharans-and thereby increased sales of radios, motor scooters and bicycles in the neighboring oases by 1,000%. Some Moslem employees have even risen to skilled jobs as truckers or members of oil rig crews, but for the bulk of their skilled labor the oil companies are obliged to look to France. To lure and keep the kind of men they need, the companies rely not on high salaries-top wages for an engineer are $700 a month-but on the pioneer spirit, a generous leave...
...outward appearances, Police Reporter Gene Grove, 34, and Aviation Editor Harry Franken, 35, are smart, hardworking newsmen on the daily Columbus (Ohio) Citizen (circ. 85,942). But once each week the two slip off duty and into the harness of the Columbus C.I.O. News, a weekly organ for organized labor. There Reporters Franken and Grove conduct a column called "Checking the Press." Its purpose: to appraise the performance of the Columbus daily press, including their own Citizen, A recent example of their work in the C.I.O. News: "The Citizen has more and more sugar-coated its stories, has spent more...
...Rankin-1917-19, 1941-43), a scrappy debater, called by her respectful colleagues "Aunt Mary," who championed her political sponsor, New Jersey Boss Frank Hague, and social legislation; in Greenwich, Conn. An ardent New Dealer, she fought tooth and nail for the 1938 wage-hour bill, chairmaned the House Labor Committee from 1937-47, insisted on her dignity and equality in the halls of Congress (once when a House member referred to her as a lady, she snapped back, "I'm no lady. I'm a member of Congress...