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...evaded them by appealing to higher courts-with significant success. He also stalled. The former Hoffa-appointed monitor, Daniel Maher, started skipping meetings. His successor, William ("Buffo") Bufalino, a Hoffa crony and head of a Detroit Teamster local that was described by the Senate rackets committee as "a leech preying on working men and women," started walking out of meetings. Strangely, insurgent-appointed Monitor Lawrence T. Smith was hard to find when meetings were called, and he accused Chairman Martin F. O'Donoghue of being obsessed with "getting Hoffa." O'Donoghue himself was picketed at his Washington...
Toys in the Attic. Lillian Hellman's melodrama about the doomed conspiracy of three women to regain their control over an engaging leech, well acted by Jason Robards...
Toys in the Attic. Lillian Hellman's melodrama about the doomed conspiracy of three women to regain their control over an engaging leech (Jason Robards...
...obsessed with "getting Hoffa." Then last fortnight Monitor Maher announced he would retire because of heart trouble. Hoffa named as his successor Detroit Lawyer William E. Bufalino, president of Teamster Local 985, a jukebox operators' and car washers' union described by the Senate rackets committee as "a leech preying upon workingmen and women to provide personal aggrandizement for Mr. Bufalino and his friends...
...Days of McKinley, by Margaret Leech. A first-rate biography which, if it leaves Mark Hanna's picked President as colorless as ever, also leaves him better understood...