Word: midwest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They contended the election of Hoffa, Midwest boss of the teamsters, and other delegates from Locals 299 and 357 in Detroit was not conducted in accordance with the union's constitution...
...Seattle's posh 410 Restaurant sat some of the top men in the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, quietly talking strategy. At one table, the comments were mixed with uneasy hope and stifled distress. There sat two men who had dared to come out against arrogant, front-running Midwest Teamster Czar James Riddle Hoffa, who claimed that he would win the brotherhood's presidency at the quinquennial convention in Miami Beach, Fla. Sept. 30. Tom Hickey, longtime New York Teamster enemy of Hoffa, was one; the other was Tom Haggerty, secretary-treasurer of a milkwagon local in Chicago...
...years in office, was little more than a figurehead ruler of a vast, decentralized realm of baronies. In the Far West a redheaded baron named Dave Beck was already capitalizing on organizational weaknesses that fairly cried for a strong hand; stealthily Beck's hand reached out. In the Midwest roughhousing, baby-faced Hoffa was doing the same. He got caught a couple of times: in 1946 he was indicted, eventually assessed costs of $500 for eliciting "fees" from independent grocerymen, who, rather than hire union drivers, were hauling their own provisions; in 1942 he was fined...
...biggest dinner of its kind ever held in Detroit, more than 2,600 well-wishers last year paid $100 apiece in honor of Hoffa's 25 years in the labor movement (proceeds for a children's home in Israel). Scores of important names in the Midwest seized the chance to shake the hard, square hand of Hoffa. And though General Motors, Ford and Chrysler employ only 500 Teamsters (out of a total payroll list of 800,000), the auto industry sent big men: a General Motors vice president, a Ford vice president, and a Chrysler industrial-relations executive...
...special interest in the Democrats v. Nixon contests was the fact that Tennessean Kefauver did as well in the Midwest, where he is still regarded as the farmers' friend, as in the South, which regards him as a civil libertarian. Massachusetts Catholic Kennedy trailed Nixon in the East, the Midwest and the Far West, picked up his entire advantage in the South, whose friendship he has been careful to cultivate, e.g., by his recent vote for the jury-trial amendment on the Senate's civil rights bill...