Word: tobin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...visible wirepulling, showed no interest in kingmaking, and-except for visits with aging, trigger-tempered Teamster Chief Dan Tobin-he steered clear of smoke-filled rooms. With beet-faced vehemence, he denied a rumor which had gotten to Cincinnati before him-that he was hell bent to boot old Dan out of office and grab the teamsters' presidency for himself. "Mr. Tobin," he said, with dignity, "is like a father...
Because of this, the rumor persisted that he planned to unseat Tobin. But he has enormous power with Tobin in office and will probably get more. The notion that he is scheming to succeed Bill Green as president of the A.F.L. also seems unsound-it is a post to which strong men are not elected...
...energy, enthusiasm and his loud, table-thumping speeches caught the eye of Michael ("Bloody Mike") Casey, the famed leader of San Francisco's teamsters. Casey recommended him to Dan Tobin, and in 1926 Tobin made Beck a teamster organizer. It was a wise, decision...
Partial Answer. His own prestige has been matched by a spectacular rise within the hierarchy of the teamsters' international union. His ideas of regional organization, once regarded as odd and unsound, have been freely adopted. Last year touchy old Dan Tobin named him executive vice president of the international union-in effect, second in command...
...unions to file financial reports, required labor to hold elections to win union shop contracts, forbade union contributions to political campaigns, required officers to sign non-Communist affidavits, outlawed jurisdictional strikes and secondary boycotts. The business of new labor legislation was under the wing of Secretary of Labor Maurice Tobin, one of the few men in the Truman...