Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...salary. In eight years the wives got $125,000 in profits for their $4,000 investment. And Commercial Carriers had no trouble at all with Hoffa's union. ¶ Hoffa and Brennan lent Eugene James $2,000 or $2,500 to start operations of a Detroit jukebox local; in return, "Jimmie" James, later accused by a Senate investigation committee of stealing $900,000 from a welfare fund, put Hoffa's and Brennan's wives on the union payroll (using their maiden names), paid them about...
...Hoffa, who continually associated with and employed a gang of ex-convicts, masterminded the chartering of seven phony New York City locals, "knowing these locals to be racket-controlled and devoid of membership." He secretly joined with Johnny Dio, the notorious racketeer, in conspiring to get derogatory information to be used against New York Teamster Vice President Tom Hickey, tried to get Dio a Teamster charter for his taxicab local, even though the legitimate Teamster organization under Hickey was trying to organize the cab drivers...
...Grand Junction, Colo., the newsletter of the Mason's Local Mesa Lodge No. 55 dealt with the problem head-on in a poignant little verse...
...Moose, fraternal leaders blame home TV, the automobile, the country club for the new apathy among the brethren. "The young people want something a little faster," admits Odd Fellow Edward McCarty of Lamed, Kans. (pop. 4,447). The lodge has lost its old appeal of exclusiveness and its local VIP leaders, e.g., the town bankers. Says a Missouri Mason: "Men just won't go out to see their mailman drone through a meeting." Even members' funerals, once a must for most orders, get scant attendance. Commented one Knights of Pythias bigwig in Birmingham: "The brothers just...
...Althea was a chronic truant; she played hooky and played Softball with the boys in Central Park. She also played forward on a basketball team called "The Mysterious Five," which practiced at the 134th Street Boys Club and scheduled as many as four games a week with local industrial clubs. "I just wanted to play, play, play," says Althea. "My mother would send me out with money for bread, and I'd be out from morning to dark-and not bring home the bread...