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Fingerprints quickly fingered "Doe" as Frank Henry Kierdorf, 56, bull-voiced business agent of Flint's Teamster Local 332 and one of Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa's 40-odd crooked business agents (i.e., personal representatives). Eventually, Kierdorf gave his own explanation of his burns. He was home alone in Flint, he said, when two workmen appeared, invited him to a secret organizing meeting. At their plea for haste, he tossed bathrobe over T shirt and trousers, climbed into their old Packard. Outside Pontiac, 40 miles away, his hosts stuck a gun at his neck, doused him with fluid...
Tracking down hogshead-shaped ex-Teamster Tycoon Dave Beck, 64, at the $163,000 lair in Seattle built for him by his onetime subjects, Television and New York Post Quizician Mike Wallace found Big Dave waiting out an appeal of his Dec. 14 conviction for larceny. Beck was perplexed about his fat, foolish youngster Dave Jr., 38, convicted of filching $4,650 from a Teamster till. "I think I made some mistakes with young Dave," said Big Dave. "But on the other hand, Dave Beck Jr. has never given me one moment of trouble. Dave Beck Jr. never drank...
Undaunted by explosive revelations of the McClellan committee investigations, unscathed by three recent court trials and small-bore insurgency in his organization, unabashed by proven connections with gangsters both in and out of his heavily muscled union, Teamster Boss James Riddle Hoffa bounced confidently into Washington last week and, with one single stroke of his fist, made the whole U.S. labor movement sit up and take notice...
Stuffed Pockets. The fact is that Jimmy can take care of his own troubles. Acquitted fortnight ago by a Manhattan federal court of charges that he conspired to tap the telephones of his fellow Teamster executives, Tough Guy Hoffa is gaining new strength day by day. Teamster membership is up (to more than 1,500,000), and Hoffa is setting up deals right and left with A.F.L.-C.I.O. unions, such as the brewery workers, butchers and carpenters, the effect of which is to undermine the strength of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. He even has in mind calling a new Teamster convention...
...large block of stock to the Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Co. Landa proceeded to raid the raider, made himself a cool $1,000,000 on Fruehauf stock during the fight. Landa welcomes allies from any quarter. During the Fruehauf fight, he negotiated a $1,500,000 loan from the then Teamster President Dave Beck to finance Fruehauf stock purchases...