Word: teamsters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Squat, shrill-voiced Midwest Teamster Boss James Riddle Hoffa, 44, barreled into Chicago last week and kicked off his campaign to succeed discredited Dave Beck as president of the 1,400,000-member International Brotherhood of Teamsters, biggest, most muscular union...
...flung Teamster brass summoned for the show, Jimmy Hoffa looked like more of a boss than ever because he had just beaten federal charges that he had tried to plant an agent on the Senate's McClellan committee investigating labor racketeering (TIME, July 29). As Reformer Hoffa, he took the rostrum to propose: 1) an organizing drive to gain 600,000 Teamster members, 2) transfer of some Beck-abused powers from the president to the union's executive board, 3) a demand that the A.F.L.-C.I.O. revoke its policy of censuring union officers who plead the Fifth Amendment...
...troubles are far from ended." Ahead of Jimmy loom sessions with the McClellan committee, plus a federal trial on charges of having illegal recording devices attached to telephones in his Detroit headquarters. After Hoffa's acquittal last week, a gloomy committee staffer ventured that a forthcoming investigation of teamster links with New York labor racketeers might lead to new charges against Jimmy. "But don't bet on it," the staffer warned. "Don't ever bet on anything again...
...Among his clients: Underworld Overlord Frank Costello, Teamster Boss Dave Beck, the late Senator Joe McCarthy. Among his triumphs: arguing the first libel suit ever won against Columnist Drew Pearson, beating a Post Office ban on Confidential...
After pocketing a passel of prizes for its series exposing a Teamster-led conspiracy to take over Portland's rackets (TIME, April 8), the Portland Oregonian (circ. 232,338) sprouted a new Page One slogan: "Grand Slam of American Journalism." The Oregon Journal (181,210), which doggedly argued that there was more sham than slam to its competitor's exclusives, last week found much to savor when a jury acquitted Teamster Organizer Clyde Cardinal Crosby on charges of conspiracy to accept a bribe. Reason: Crosby had been charged with racketeering by Gambler Jim Elkins, who also led Oregonian...