Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...statement that summed up, for the present at least, the sordid career of one of the most powerful labor leaders in the U.S. Some key items in the committee's indictment: ¶ Hoffa borrowed money-about $90,000, all told-from a variety of union business agents, a truck owner who employed Teamsters, and Teamster officials. He rarely paid interest, signed notes or offered collateral. In most cases there was no evidence that the payments to Hoffa actually were loans. ¶ A Hoffa acquaintance set up Test Fleet Corp., a truck-leasing firm, in the maiden names of Hoffa...
Coop of Capons. The man who thus stood indicted by the McClellan committee seems on his way to election next month as the president of the 1,400,000-member International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which-with strategic control over truck transportation-has enormous economic power in the U.S. The point worried members of the McClellan committee. Asked New York's Republican Senator Irving Ives: "What are you going to do after you are elected, if you are elected? You have consorted with all of these bums and these criminals and everything else throughout your career practically. Are you going...
...Freedom! Freedom!" Then, as U.S. Ambassador Earl E. T. Smith listened from an office where he was getting the keys to the city, the cry changed to screams for help. Outside, Dictator Fulgencio Batista's police rushed the demonstrators, twisted arms, carted many off to jail. A fire truck was moved up, began pumping streams of water at the women, supporters of Rebel Fidel Castro's revolutionaries holed up in the nearby Sierra Maestra...
...stockholders angrily flared up as well at the delighted reaction of Anjopa President Joseph Di Candia (also under indictment for conspiracy with Rose). "I am a happy man today," cried Di Candia, and promptly guaranteed a bright future for friendly ex-Banker Rose, who is now driving a truck while awaiting trial next month. Promised Di Candia: "When Bill Rose's troubles are over, I'll offer him half interest in the paper mill-for nothing. I will never forget Bill Rose for what...
...success. Says he, "It's all well and good that she's at her best right now, but imagine, say five or ten years from now. What'll she be then? I would just as soon have her living here and married to a truck driver...