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...make the U.S. slum-sensitive. He succeeded better than almost anybody but Al Capone. Farrell's Studs Lonigan (TIME, Feb. 19, 1934) became a synonym for the smalltime U.S. tough guy. With dogged earnestness, a lot of firsthand factuality (Farrell was born the son of a Chicago teamster in 1904) and a total lack of humor, Farrell painstakingly traced Studs's dingy career and its social context through three slablike volumes. None of the Studs series was quite as good as Volume I, but in the general flatness of U.S. letters, the trilogy raised Novelist Farrell...
...split off from A.F. of L. in 1935, labor statesmen have wondered how to put labor's Humpty Dumpty together again. The latest attempt: a joint committee to iron out jurisdictional disputes. Last week came a candid editorial by Daniel J. Tobin, head of the A.F. of L. teamsters' union and member of the committee. Teamster Tobin, his patience petering, told how the patching job was going...
Before entering politics via the soapbox, this bombastic orator was a teamster, storekeeper, baker, and truck-owner, shuttling between Boston and Cambridge for a living. Today he still has his small trucking business, but it isn't this that keeps him on the go. "It's the politics," as Mike calls it. "It sort of gets in your blood, and you can't get it out." During one election, the word went around that if Mickey showed up at a certain rally he'd be tossed out the window by his enemies. Mickey showed up. He wasn't going...
Jails. In Mexico City when a jailer stopped letting a prisoner go out every day the prisoner protested to a court on the ground that his constitutional rights were being denied him. In Louisville, when a drunken teamster fell asleep on his wagon his mule pulled him to a police station, stopped at the door...
Headquarters were in the Olympic Hotel, where elderly Dan Tobin, boss of the teamsters, had already grabbed the best rooms. The Olympic's management had just redecorated its penthouse apartment and named it the Royal Suite, in the hope that the Duke of Windsor, Canada-bound might be the first occupant. The pent house contains seven bedrooms, five bathrooms, reception hall, bar, library, salon, dining room, recreation room, kitchen, service pantry and a terrace sprouting green grass, flowers and shrubs. By the time President Green arrived, Mr. Tobin and his party of eleven teamster officials (four with wives) were...