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First package in the load was cucumber-shaped Anthony Doria, who despite his vegetable-like appearance, sounded like the world's longest-playing record. For eleven hours, Doria, former international secretary-treasurer of the U.A.W.-A.F.L., virtually overwhelmed the committee and absorbed television viewers with a display of verbal sidestepping, sermonizing, non-sequiturs and assorted mishmash calculated to assure everybody that Racketeer Johnny Dio is just as honest and devoted to clean labor unionism as Anthony Doria himself ("If society had treated Johnny Dio right, he would have had the opportunity of becoming an outstanding leader in labor...
With its heavy load of evidence, the McClellan-led caravan moved on relentlessly toward Jimmy Hoffa's door. Hoffa's Teamster career would depend directly on how much of the hot cargo he could touch without burning his fingers...
...first seamless steel train tires for the railroads that were pushing across Europe and the American West. Krupp also turned out steel cannon, but for many years had little success in selling them until German militarists finally awoke to the fact that the new cannon were easier to load and more accurate and durable than the traditional bronze models. With Krupp cannon, Prussia defeated Austria in 1866 and France in 1871. By 1887 Krupp had sold 24,567 big guns to 21 nations. Alfred Krupp became known in Essen as "Alfred the Great" and abroad as the "Cannon King...
...Said Harry Truman to reporters after death of Franklin Roosevelt, "I don't know if any of you fellows ever had a load of hay or a bull fall on him. But last night the whole weight of the moon and the stars fell...
...made ends meet by doubling as school janitor and fabricator of canvases and panels that the school sold to its students. Eventually he became assistant director of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, now teaches at the University of Texas in Austin. At any time he is apt to load his family into a battered station wagon with palette and easel and take to the hills or the canyons of the Big Bend. A prolific painter, Spruce takes only a couple of days to complete a canvas, sells his paintings...