Word: teamster
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spokesman from the A&P Boston headquarters said yesterday that A&P stores in Boston purchase UFW-label lettuce and only supplement their stock with lettuce that bears the Teamster Union label when UFW lettuce is in short supply...
Centurion. Just as it is Hoffa's destiny to claw toward power once again, it is Sheridan's fate to oppose him. The author was one of Robert Kennedy's principal aides while Kennedy was chief counsel to the Senate Rackets Committee that investigated Teamster wrongdoing. When Kennedy became Attorney General, Sheridan enlisted as a senior centurion in the Justice Department legion that finally brought Hoffa to justice. Later, as an investigative reporter, Sheridan managed to stay in touch with the case...
More than half the book is a recapitulation of Teamster corruption just before and during Hoffa's tenure as international president. This is a familiar witch's brew of paper locals, hanky-panky with the enormous pension funds, involvement with a Mafia Who's Who, intimidation of the few labor leaders who protested the corruption of their union. Far fresher-and perhaps even more significant at this stage-is Sheridan's detailed reconstruction of the efforts, after Hoffa's convictions, to keep him out of jail and, those failing, to get him an early release...
...target of the most intense pressure was Edward Grady Partin, the Baton Rouge Teamster official who had provided the most damning testimony at the jury-tampering trial. Partin had been having his own troubles with the law and seemed vulnerable. He was variously approached with offers of money and protection if he would help Hoffa and threats of further prosecution if he would not. Until Richard Nixon took office in 1968, Partin was relatively safe. But old and rather dubious criminal charges against him were revived when the Republicans took over the Justice Department. By then Hoffa's appeals...
...first-person plural as if he were spoofing the "We" of The Talk of the Town. Only once does he break tone and give a hint of the robust tall-tale telling of his native Texas. He describes his grandfather, who, with good looks and a bottle of Teamster's Early Grave, convinced a conservation-minded wood nymph to transform herself "into one million board feet of one-by-ten of the very poorest quality neatly stacked in rail road cars on a siding outside of Fort Riley, Kans." Barthelme concludes: "Actually, he just plain cut down the trees...