Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this group has had little success in halting Hoffa's steamroller. What they must do then is to convince the rank and file teamster that Hoffa is bad for him and for organized labor. This will not be easy, for many teamsters believe that while Hoffa may be corrupt, he has had to be to gain labor benefits for them. The question will then be whether the anti-Hoffa forces can convince this group that Hoffa is not out for the good of the Teamsters, but for the good of James R. Hoffa...
...Washington, to the applause of Teamster locals across the U.S., 13 rank-and-file, New York-area Teamsters won a temporary federal court injunction halting the Teamster election on the grounds that some delegates to the Miami convention had been selected unconstitutionally. One day later a court of appeals decision struck down the temporary injunction because it "had gone beyond the necessities of the situation," but left the way open for a post-election challenge of election procedures if the rank and filers still suspect unconstitutionality...
...which ineluctably determines how high or low high-living Washington partygoers will eat at their friends' dinner tables. The most spectacular jump toward the head of the table was made by Sherman Adams, Assistant to the President, who bypassed 48 governors, 96 Senators and two men of Cabinet rank, to land just below the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. House Speaker Sam Rayburn will also eat higher up on the festive board this year, jumping over foreign ambassadors and widows of former Presidents, to sit, a Texas Democrat, just below former Presidents. Reason: the speaker of the House...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4--Sen. McClellan (D-Ark.) today called James R. Hoffa's election as president of the Teamsters Union a challenge to Congress to enact laws that will protect rank and file union members from "gangsterism and racketeer control...
...rank Yale right with Princeton, and put Penn and Dartmouth in there too. They're all deep and all strong clubs," he said...