Word: teamster
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...used to be a teamster. Drove one-horse, two-horse rigs. Then when trucks came in I started driving trucks. I was a trucker for 40 years, and it was the best damned 40 years of my life...
...native Nebraskan, took a degree from Willamette University in 1958 and stayed on in Oregon as a cannery worker and member of the Teamsters Union. Entering politics, he served two terms in the state legislature as a Democrat, then switched and served a third as a Republican. Named director of Oregon's Department of Environmental Quality in 1971, this self-styled "concerned volunteer citizen" cleaned up the Willamette River by cowing the mighty Boise Cascade Corp. into shutting its Salem plant and seemed destined for political heights. But in 1973 he resigned and returned to his "first love...
Talking to Hoffa, it becomes clear that he regards his five years in stir as simply an unpleasant interlude, a necessary evil in the normal course of his life. His ability to do this, and the assurance he had that his family, money, and reputation with the Teamster rank-and-file would be waiting for him when he got out meant that he was able to avoid embarassing questions about society and probably about himself...
...Nick received the first payment from the union. They formed a corporation, America on the Move, Inc., and hired a reputable public relations consultant, Thelma Gray, to handle the publicity campaign. Setting up offices at the Samuel Goldwyn studios in Hollywood, they launched the project at Teamster headquarters in Washington. Demonstrating its usual friendliness toward the union, the Nixon Administration sent top officials to attend the ceremonies...
...been hijacked-by its own producers. It seems that no sooner had Ed and Nick set up shop in Hollywood than they formed a second corporation, Sabra Productions Inc., which began shooting a movie in Israel. To finance the film, they dipped heavily into money allocated for the Teamster campaign, an action that has caused the U.S. Department of Justice to start an investigation. Ed and Nick argue that $400,000 of their Teamster budget was "profit" to use as they pleased. But they spent much more than that. Explains McMahon: "We misused the money in the sense that...