Word: teamster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...then there was the ticklish problem of Brother Bobby, 35. The Presidentelect wanted him as his U.S. Attorney General-and knew there would be an outcry against it. Jack Kennedy thinks crime needs major attention-not only juvenile delinquency but also labor racketeering (with particular reference to Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa). He also wants a good, hard look at the federal regulatory agencies, and feels that Bobby would make an able crime-busting investigator. But both brothers knew that there would be a fuss; Jack Kennedy argued that it would blow over. In private conversations he indicated a willingness...
People back home in Portland, Ore. have long ago given up trying to figure Baker out. His father left home when Terry was seven, and he was raised by his mother, who put two other sons through college by working as a Teamster on the loading platform of a Sears, Roebuck store. In high school Baker was almost too good to be true. He was an A student. As a high-scoring forward, he took his basketball team to two city championships. Throwing with his right arm, he pitched his baseball team to victory in the state finals. Passing with...
With his canny knack for beating the rap, Teamster Topdog James Riddle Hoffa has survived 1) an A.F.L-C.I.O. expulsion order, 2) federal investigations of his income tax returns, 3) a pair of Justice Department prosecutions for wiretapping and bribery, and 4) the Landrum-Griffin labor law, which was written largely to unscrew Hoffa's hammerlock on most of the U.S. transportation industry. Just about the last hope of halting Hoffa is the three-man Teamster Board of Monitors, set up three years ago by a Federal court to keep the 1,650,000-member union at least reasonably clean...
Evasion & Frustration. The board came into being when 13 Teamster insurgents, charging that Hoffa's election had been rigged, sued in 1957 to prevent him from taking over the presidency. Hoffa made a deal that most Hoffa haters thought was a fatal blunder: if he could move in as "provisional" president, he would permit a board of monitors to oversee Teamster affairs. The resulting consent decree called for the board to consist of one insurgent-appointed monitor, one Teamster-appointed monitor, and a chairman to be named by Federal Judge F. Dickinson Letts. Ever since, Jimmy Hoffa...
Hoffa either ignored the board's clean-up recommendations or evaded them by appealing to higher courts-with significant success. He also stalled. The former Hoffa-appointed monitor, Daniel Maher, started skipping meetings. His successor, William ("Buffo") Bufalino, a Hoffa crony and head of a Detroit Teamster local that was described by the Senate rackets committee as "a leech preying on working men and women," started walking out of meetings. Strangely, insurgent-appointed Monitor Lawrence T. Smith was hard to find when meetings were called, and he accused Chairman Martin F. O'Donoghue of being obsessed with "getting...