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...Teamster Support Expected...
...Long had few jokes to tell last week. After elaborate but independent investigations of his political and financial interests, LIFE and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch simultaneously published accounts of Long's association with St. Louis Attorney Morris A. Shenker, chief of a brigade of lawyers representing jailed Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa. Both publications charged that in the years 1963-64 Shenker had paid Ed Long some $48,000 in fees-though the Post-Dispatch was gingerly about saying...
...Smear." "Senator Long has misused his investigating subcommittee-first, as an instrument for trying to keep Jimmy Hoffa out of prison; subsequently, after Hoffa went in, to get him out," wrote LIFE'S William Lambert. He catalogued Long's friendships with Missouri Teamsters, his excessively fervent praise for Hoffa at a Miami Beach Teamster convention last year, his subcommittee's apparent fascination with whether federal agents had illegally bugged telephone conversations between Hoffa and one of his lawyers-a charge that, if proven by the committee, might possibly have freed Hoffa...
...sent only Democrats to the state house of representatives since the district was formed in 1953. The reputation of Hoffa pere, which might have been fatal in many constituencies, was a boon in the 19th, with its large population of union members, many of whom feel the imprisoned Teamster boss got a bum rap. The Teamsters and the United Auto Workers went all out to elect young Hoffa, who even won kind words from Vice President Hubert Humphrey and Senator Robert Kennedy when they were in town...
...President Dave Beck was jailed for embezzling union funds and Jimmy replaced him. It could be a long way from the last. In addition to his eight-year sentence for jury tampering, Hoffa faces a five-year jail term for trying to steal more than $1,000,000 in Teamster pension funds, a conviction that is still being appealed through the courts. He will have one consolation. In jail or out, he will continue to draw his $100,000-a-year salary...