Word: teamster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Finally Miller gave up, declared a mistrial-and for the fourth time in five years Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa walked free from a federal trial...
This time the charge was that Hoffa and another Teamster official had violated the Taft-Hartley Law by making $1,008,057 out of a trucking company with which the Teamsters did business. If Hoffa was worried about whether the rap would stick, he certainly managed to conceal his anxiety. During the long wait for the jury, he strutted around the corridors and delivered himself of some cocky, colorful opinions. "These FBI agents," harangued Hoffa, "are all stool pigeons. A bunch of rats and stool pigeons. Give one of them a local with 10,000 members...
...that one prospective juror had reported to Miller a $10,000 bribe offer. Two regular jurors had been disqualified after attempts to influence them-one of them a housewife whose highway-patrolman husband testified he had been offered help in getting a promotion by Ewing King, president of Nashville Teamster Local 327. Miller said he would soon call a grand jury to investigate...
Cleveland entered its third week without newspapers-even though Jimmy Hoffa's Teamsters, who led the walkout Nov. 29, have now negotiated a settlement with both the morning Plain Dealer and the evening Press. Irate at this early surrender, the American Newspaper Guild voted overwhelmingly to continue the strike on its own. replaced the departing Teamster picketers with Guildsmen...
None of this was very exciting stuff. But then, into the courtroom last week marched a young, half-crazed dishwasher who said he had been directed by a "vision" to kill Teamster Hoffa. He fired several shots at Hoffa with a BB pistol, pinked Jimmy's hide with a few pellets. Tough little Jimmy went fiercely after his assailant, planted a dandy right on his jaw; a Hoffa crony then kicked the would-be assassin. The man required 14 stitches in his scalp, was taken away to jail. Taking this incident as evidence of "hostility" against their client, Hoffa...