Word: york
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hoffa brought New York City Teamsters locals into the union in 1955, with the help of Gangsters John ("Johnny Dio") Dioguardi and Anthony ("Tony Ducks") Corallo, under low wages and poor working conditions. Hoffa authorized labor contracts in Detroit under which Teamsters Union car-washers got as little as $2.50 for a ten-hour...
Working from the moment he stepped out of a commercial airliner (Eastern Air Lines) from New York to the moment he boarded another (Pan American) five days later, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller convinced the governors' conference at San Juan, Puerto Rico that he is a deadly serious candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 1960. In press conferences, in hard digging behind the scenes, in earnest conversation with his fellow Governors, and in tireless, wide-grinning glad-handedness, he had no serious challenger as the conference's star operator. Wrote the New York Herald Tribune...
Just before heading home, Rockefeller practiced his emerging new campaign line. Republicans must "put up the kind of candidates who can win," said he, "and stand for frank facing of issues as they exist today, with honest and courageous solutions." Before Rockefeller landed in New York, Long Island Congressman Stuyvesant Wainwright, whose brother works for Rockefeller, announced from Washington a "draft Rockefeller" movement ready to set up a Midwestern headquarters. He was shortly seconded by Wisconsin's Congressman Alvin O'Konski, who promised that Rockefeller would have a full slate of delegates in the April Wisconsin primaries...
...proposal was brought to San Juan by New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, who last month defied the advice of politicos and sponsored a compulsory shelter plan for all homes in New York State (TIME, July 20). In working sessions Rockefeller, backed by Civil Defense Mobilizer Leo Hoegh, got his fellow Governors to formally 1) endorse a "vigorous and continuing campaign of education" on fallout hazards and the need for privately built shelters, 2) promise to survey shelter facilities in their own state buildings and set up alternate capitols in protected spots. (Twelve states already have them.) They also...
Elder Statesman Herbert Hoover, clear-eyed, poker-backed and 85 this week, returned to New York City from San Francisco to celebrate his birthday and catch up on his awesome workload (writing four books, answering scores of letters, being chairman of the Boys Clubs of America). That afternoon he went to Yankee Stadium to toss in the first ball in a nostalgic two-inning game between Yankee oldtimers and their erstwhile opponents from the National League foes...