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...Fruehauf Corp., world's largest maker of truck trailers (1964 sales: $313 million) founded by his father in 1918, who in 1953 squeezed his brother out as chairman and staved off a muchpublicized proxy raid with the aid of a $1,500,000 stock-purchase loan from then Teamster Boss Dave Beck, five years later found himself indicted along with Beck for repaying the favor with a $200,000 loan of his own (illegal under the Taft-Hartley Act), was eventually acquitted, but not before a group of dissident directors had forced him out of office; of a stroke...
...marshals. The judge had threatened to "get" the defendant. A U.S. marshal pranced about a hotel dressed in nothing but a woman's brassière and panties. It was fantastic, that is, until one knew the author of the plot, who is a pretty fantastic fellow himself: Teamster Boss James Riddle Hoffa...
...Hung Up." As night fell, a steady stream of cars were moving along Route 80, carrying demonstrators from Montgomery back to Selma. One of the volunteer drivers was red-haired Viola Gregg Liuzzo, 39, twice-divorced, wife of a Detroit Teamster union official, the mother of five children, aged six to 18, one a 17-year-old married daughter living in Georgia. She was occasionally involved in protest activities, once kept two of her sons out of school more than a month to dramatize her objection to a state law permitting students to drop out of school at 16, which...
...story about Cohn. Somehow, in the midst of that file was a confidential memo written by LIFE'S then Washington bureau chief, reporting that he had received a call from Attorney General Kennedy, who offered to put him in touch with one Sam Baron, a disgruntled Teamster official who wanted to write an exposé about Hoffa...
...explained that Baron "was in fear of his life. He felt that if anything happened to him, if he was killed, he wanted to make sure his story was told. He asked me to put him in touch with somebody who would relate what he had undergone as a Teamster official. I made that arrangement. I did nothing else. Nothing, in fact, was ever published until Mr. Baron was physically beaten by Mr. Hoffa." LIFE Editor Edward...