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...Teamster Boss James Riddle Hoffa sees it, the most serious threat to his job security lies in the three-man board of monitors fastened on him by a U.S. district court in 1958 to oversee his promised cleanup of the racket-riddled International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Consequently, Hoffa has kept his loo-member legal staff busy harassing the monitors in court, and helping him find other ways around them outside the court...
...away at the neck of one of his bitterest foes. Democratic Presidential Hopeful Jack Kennedy, Jimmy Hoffa. as outwardly confident as the driver of a 14-wheel rig, swaggered into Manhattan's Madison Square Garden (capacity: 18,000) for a rally billed as dramatic evidence of Teamster solidarity. Again he whaled away at Kennedy ("the handsome young man who never knew what it was to work with his hands"), as well as at Arkansas' Teamster-investigating Democratic Senator John McClellan, the Landrum-Griffin bill, radio, TV, the press, etc. But the meeting...
...head-hunting-along with its failure-was dramatically demonstrated in another way last week. Uncovered by the New York Herald Tribune's Reporter Earl Mazo was a Hoffa political purge list, containing the names of 87 Senators and Representatives running for 1960 reelection. Sent several months ago to Teamster leaders around the country, it cited four Democratic Senators (McClellan, Mississippi's James Eastland, West Virginia's Jennings Randolph and Tennessee's Estes Kefauver) and five Republicans (South Dakota's Karl Mundt, Ida ho's Henry Dworshak. Colorado's Gordon Allott. Nebraska...
...were after each other tooth, nail and quill. Cries of "windbag" and "vote stealer" were hurled at Humphrey; Kennedy was labeled "soft on McCarthyism" and "tough and amoral." Brother Robert Kennedy, campaigning hard for Jack in Wisconsin, dropped some unsubtle hints that his (and Jack's) archenemy, tough Teamster Jimmy Hoffa, was backing Humphrey. Angrily, Humphrey retorted that "I have not sought Hoffa's support, and he has not offered it. The only time he came into my state recently was to say some unkind things about...
...accused Morrison (who had the backing of most of New Orleans' 34,000 Negro voters) of playing along with the N.A.A.C.P. and Teamster Boss James Hoffa, promised to go to jail before he would permit integration in Louisiana schools. Although he had token support from outgoing Governor Earl Long, Davis' biggest ally was State Senator Willie Rainach, one of Louisiana's hottest segregationists; Rainach rounded up thousands of supporters with the promise that Davis would make him boss of an anti-integration state sovereignty commission...