Word: teamster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Teamsters convention in Miami Beach last week began like a summer shivaree. Delegates pinned on badges, pumped hands, paraded conga-fashion through the Deauville Hotel lobby behind a red-coated jazz band. They packed hotel dining rooms in the early evening and took their trade to Collins Avenue strip joints as the night sluiced tin. They crowded into the Miami Beach exhibition hall for a $25,000 one-night Teamster spectacular, featuring George Gobel, Mimi Benzell and ten chorus girls. They had a wonderful time. And they were...
Died. Owen Bernard ("Bert") Brennan, 57, rough, tough-talking Teamster Union vice president since 1957, mentor and close friend of Jimmy Hoffa ("the greatest little bastard who ever put a pair of shoes on"); of cancer; in Detroit. A $15-a-week wagon driver who rose by his skill as a skull-cracking labor organizer, Brennan sported a lengthy arrest record (assault, bombing, antitrust violations), co-starred with Hoffa in close-mouthed appearances before the Senate labor-rackets committee...
...tape cutting, Cisler takes over at Fruehauf from Roy A. Fruehauf, 52, whose family founded the firm. Eased out as Fruehauf Trailer's chief executive 18 months ago, Roy Fruehauf must face a recently revived indictment accusing him of making an illegal $200,000 loan to ex-Teamster Union Boss Dave Beck...
Bobby himself wants to stay on as Attorney General. He has some tasks cut out for himself that he cares deeply about: battling big-time organized crime, combatting juvenile delinquency, pushing for desegregation, and investigating the operations of Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa, his longtime enemy. But much as Bobby wants to stay at the Justice Department, he will take on whatever job his brother asks him to do. And he will bring to it the prestige that goes with being the New Frontier...
...Nation's Future (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). "Are Labor Unions Too Powerful?" Teamster Boss James Hoffa argues that they are not; Publisher Arthur H. Motley, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, disagrees. NBC's John K.M. McCaffery moderates...