Word: longshoremen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leads to "the inability of college graduates to read or write." For some extreme types of academic affliction, Graves recommends a Demosthenic treatment: "Fill the sufferer's mouth with pebbles and make him explain his theories in simple language to a mixed audience of Texan cowhands and Boston longshoremen...
...district attorney. An honest pier boss (Mickey Shaughnessy), who refuses to holler uncle when the musclemen apply the pressure, is burned with half a dozen garlic-smeared slugs, and Keating (Richard Egan) is assigned to make the case against the goons who got him. He gets nowhere fast. The longshoremen, as usual, are afraid to talk. The victim himself refuses to "rat." The affable union boss (Walter Matthau) plies the racket-buster with bribes and threats. His chief witness disappears. But somehow the interest remains...
...your operators to Brooklyn [where the docks are run by "Tough Tony" Anastasia, the late Albert's brother]. All I can offer you is the guarantee of a scholar and a gentleman. Let me assure you that I will give you 5,000 spiritually free, but morally bound longshoremen...
UNION MERGER between scandal-ridden Teamsters and racketeer-infested International Longshoremen's Association is in talking stage. I.L.A. President William Bradley is passing word to bosses of his locals that alliance is set for "about six months" after Teamsters are expelled from A.F.L.-C.I.O. for corruption...
...Reles, though locked in a Coney Island hotel room and guarded by cops, somehow managed to fall out the window and kill himself before Brooklyn Prosecutor Bill O'Dwyer saw fit to bring Al to trial Al disappeared and joined the Army (he trained soldiers as longshoremen during the war), and for "clerical reasons," the "wanted" card with Al's name was removed from the files of the New York Police Department...