Word: martines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jacob Javits, who has made a political career out of civil rights, was proclaiming: "I want a civil rights bill, not a campaign issue." That left it up to House Republicans-and, finding themselves virtually isolated in the effort for a strong bill, they began giving way despite Leader Martin's pleas to stand fast. Illinois' Leo Allen, the senior Republican on the House Rules Committee, pithily summed it all up: "The dam is breaking...
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...
...ready-fisted dock worker, had led the committee to feel that he might cooperate with the investigators. He had been declared winner of the contested election, was forced to give it up after Lacey took the case to court-and finally, unopposed, took over Joint Council 16 when ailing Martin Lacey dropped out. O'Rourke's surprise: Fifth Amendment pleas on all pertinent questions, even a refusal to admit that he is president of the council or that he is acquainted with other Teamster officials. Asked South Dakota's Senator Karl Mundt plaintively: "Is there anything...
...Louis henchman, Harold Gibbons, to settle one of the many New York Teamster problems. The committee heard enough to conclude that Tony Ducks, as well as Mobster Johnny Dio, helped rig the key Teamster election in Joint Council 16, and that he even planned to offer beleaguered President Martin Lacey $10,000 a year to move over and leave the spot for Hoffa's man, Johnny O'Rourke...
...Conspiracy. As the week wound up, 74-year-old Martin Lacey showed up to verify much of the testimony. The chartering of the Teamster phony locals, he said, tears in his eyes, was the result of "fraud and deception . . . a major conspiracy." Lacey was seconded by Teamster Vice President Tom Hickey, Jimmy Hoffa's chief enemy in the Teamsters...