Word: ryans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years (1927-53), burly Joseph Patrick Ryan ruled the New York waterfront as boss of the International Longshoremen's Association. With the connivance of wharf racketeers, Ryan cowed shipowners and decent dockworkers alike, and defied the forces of law. Last week in a Manhattan court Joe Ryan finally got his comeuppance, on the charge that he had accepted $2,500 in gratuities from a trucking company. "The defendant was not a union leader," said Prosecutor Arnold Bauman. "He was a racketeer. The I.L.A. was a racket, which perpetuated itself by a reign of terror, by brutal beatings, in some...
Judge Edmund L. Palmieri chose to hand down a relatively mild sentence-six months in prison, $2,500 in fines-because Ryan was already suffering from another kind of retribution. At 70, the ex-boss is physically broken and rapidly becoming senile. His longshoremen's union, uncleansed, continues to dominate the New York waterfront...
Ross Rizley, 62, former Oklahoma Congressman (1941-49) and onetime Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, was named by President Eisenhower last week to the Civil Aeronautics Board to succeed Oswald Ryan. First Republican appointed to the board (in 1938), Ryan became such an expert in the complicated airline business that he dominated CAB for much of his 16 years as a member. The appointment ended a muddle over Ryan's successor. Harold Jones, onetime CAB member, was first offered the job (TIME, Jan. 17), but the appointment was withdrawn after protests that he was biased against small and nonscheduled lines...
...from disapproving Teacher Ryan's tactics, Mayor Robinson wrote to thank her and her fellow teachers for their "civic-minded interest." But Mary Ryan herself is not through yet. At the risk of job and pension, she intends to continue the fight until the political gag on her colleagues is removed entirely. Said her attorney: "The board is obviously not going to meet our challenge. But we're going to keep peppering them with this thing. We may even make a legitimate endorsement of a candidate for mayor when the time comes and the various candidates are known...
...APPOINTMENT to fill the seat vacated by Aeronautics Boss Oswald Ryan will go to Harold Jones, 57, a California Republican who served previously on the board under Harry Truman...