Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Assorted Surprises. Next came a crate of assorted mugs, who, Committee Counsel Bob Kennedy contended, were rounded up by Dio and his henchmen. They served as officers of the phony locals that were set up to outvote Joint Council 16 President Martin Lacey in 1956 and elect Hoffa's man, John O'Rourke. Among these was one Armando Simontacci, who testified that, all of a sudden, although he had never been a member of the Teamsters, he was told one day by one of Dio's boys that he had been made president of Teamster Local...
...Hoffa," testified Hickey, "interceded for Mr. Dio. [Mr. Dio] impressed Mr. Hoffa no end." At a high-level meeting with Dio, Hickey and Dave Beck, Hoffa tried to win Beck's agreement to sweep Dio into the Teamsters Union with a Dio-controlled taxicab local, but, said Hickey, A.F.L. Boss George Meany (now president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.) killed the move. In the end Hickey discovered that Hoffa had sneaked Teamster charters through to Dio anyway. Announced Hickey: he will run for the international presidency against Hoffa late next month. Asked John McClellan: "If you should be elected, would...
Founded and operated for a seemingly infinite variety of reasons, ranging from royal good fellowship, to mutual financial benefit (low-cost insurance), to generously financed works of public good will,† the nation's 248 major fraternal orders (125,861 local chapters) have shared as never before in the golden bounty of U.S. prosperity. Since 1947, overall membership in the Masonic order, biggest U.S. fraternity, has climbed 10% to 4,000,000; the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, second largest, reports a husky 25% gain in new dues-paying brethren to a total of 1,200,000. From...
...Jacopo's taste, and when his father died, he went back home, serenely painting by the peaceful bridge over the Brenta. Unlike Venice, the town of Bassano appreciated his work so much that he was exempted from paying city taxes. His Adoration, painted for the local church, was so successful that crowds flocked to see it, and many bid to buy it, until finally the church decreed that "the painting shall never be removed, under any pretext whatsoever, and under penalty of a 500 ducats fine...
...Local Anesthetic. In Budapest, the newspaper People's Freedom carried a want ad: "Girl, 23, with glasses, high-school graduate, living in country, would like to meet and marry serious man who does not like to make acquaintances through...