Word: meaney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Provenzano's plans would have succeeded but for Manhattan Lawyer Godfrey Schmidt. 56, who resigned from the court-appointed national board of Teamster monitors last July in order to carry on his anti-Hoffa fight in the locals. Schmidt went before Federal Judge Thomas H. Meaney in Newark, charged that in the October meeting Local 560 insurgents had been denied protections guaranteed by Landrum-Griffin. Meaney slapped Provenzano with an injunction that adjourned all union business meetings until the insurgents could exercise those rights. Result: Provenzano's forces caved in, last week signed a court stipulation postponing...
Last year KUHT Director John Meaney and University of Houston Psychologist Richard Evans hit upon an idea that should make KUHT the envy of any station. With a grant from the Fund for the Advancement of Education, they set out to put the world's "great masters" on film. This month they interviewed Freud's biographer, British Analyst Ernest Jones, 79. Last week they tackled Jung...
Jung and Jones should be only the beginning. Meaney and Evans now hope to film such great masters as T. S. Eliot, Arnold Toynbee and Bernard Berenson. Says Evans dreamily: "Suppose we had had this thing in the 16th century. Why, we could have had Shakespeare. Even more recently, what a boon it would have been to have had Einstein explain relativity...
...acquaintances, social or otherwise, included Mayor Vincent Impellitteri, the late Mayor Fiorello La Guardia ("I used to talk with him like I was his son"), ex-Congressman Vito Marcantonio (who appointed Luchese's son to West Point), Myles J. Lane, the U.S. district attorney, Federal Judge Thomas Meaney, and Federal Judge Thomas Murphy, the man who prosecuted Alger Hiss. Also brought out during the reading of Luchese's testimony...