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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bribery indictment, dipping into the multimillion-dollar "special organizing" fund for uncounted amounts, destroying union records of the takings. The suit demanded court protection for the complaining members and their local union (Local 101, Baltimore) against the Carpenter practice of strong-arming down all opposition, begged the court to set a receivership over Carpenter property to run the union's affairs...
...Chicago meeting of his huge Central States Conference, Hoffa declared that he would not only observe the new law's restrictions, but also bitterly laid out a go-it-alone policy as far as all non-Teamster unions are concerned: "Our members will refuse to honor lines set up for organizational or recognition purposes. But in primary strikes, other unions will have to indemnify us against loss if they want our support...
Finance Minister Morarji Desai angrily set out to get the facts about the Red road. Cross-questioning India's Army Chief of Staff. Lieut. General K. S. Thimayya, he asked when he first knew about the road. In 1957, said the general, and he had offered proposals to safeguard the security of India, but they were turned down by the Defense Minister, lean, rancorous V. K. Krishna Menon. "Why?" asked Desai. "Because," replied Thimayya, "he said that the enemy was on the other side [i.e., Pakistan], not on this side...
...almost all of them black, while Mboya, in the multiracial British colony of Kenya, is merely the leading African politician in a government where the whites run things. When Nkrumah held his All-Africa Peoples Conference, he propelled Labor Leader Mboya into the chairmanship, and the stage seemed set for a lasting alliance of Mboya's rising influence in East Africa with Nkrumah's power on the West Coast...
...Cardinals suffered from a general lack of form in their play, which was continually marred by jerky and at times awkward strokes. The only set any of them won was against sophomore Romer Holleran...