Word: showdowns
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Letts appointed a former FBI man: Bronx-born Terence F. McShane, 32, a federal agent in the 1956 Hoffa wiretap case who later conducted an investigation of the secretary-treasurer of Hoffa's home Local 299 in Detroit. That done, Judge Letts was ready to proceed with the showdown trial late this month of the monitors' civil suit against Hoffa on charges that he misused $500,000 in union funds in connection with Florida real estate speculation...
Although the main focus was on Detroit, there were other signs of an impending showdown. Items: ¶ In Washington, Stuart Symington's announcement of his candidacy (see below), with the advice and consent of Harry Truman, had the desired effect of stiffening some Kennedy opposition. ¶ From Washington came word that Lyndon Johnson would declare his candidacy earlier than he had planned-probably after the California primaries in June. Asked if Lyndon would announce before the convention, Rayburn said: "He will at the proper time, if he follows my advice." Had he advised him yet? "Not yet, I haven...
Mourning Day. Afraid of civil war and preparing for a showdown, the government canceled all leaves for the 20,000 members of the South African police, placed the members of auxiliary white defense forces on a stand-by alert. Indoor or outdoor meetings of more than twelve persons were declared illegal (exception: a political rally of 40,000 addressed by Prime Minister Verwoerd, who complained that most of the unanimous outside criticism came from "the ducktails of the political world .... Good and nice people are mostly quiet"). African political organizations were outlawed. Robert Sobukwe and eleven of his Pan-African...
...longer was Bulganin in Caucasian exile as chairman of the obscure Stavropol Economic Council. He had been banished there for siding with Khrushchev's "antiparty" foes in the big 1957 leadership showdown. Even after he had made a groveling confession of his "mistakes" before the Moscow Central Committee late in 1958, the local zealots in Stavropol apparently kept calling him an enemy of the state. According to a story passed by the Moscow censors, Bulganin appealed to Khrushchev, who suggested that Bulganin retire on a pension. At 64, a pale shadow of the jovial, rotund figure who represented...
Three weeks ago, on the eve of the showdown Labor Party executive meeting that was to decide on Gaitskell's proposals, 44 left-wing M.P.s broke with their leader over their insistence that Britain should unilaterally renounce its nuclear bomb. One of the dissidents was Richard Grossman, onetime Oxford don. Under heavy pressure from right-wing trade unionists who have no use for the party's intellectuals, Gaitskell last week fired Grossman from his place on the Labor Party's front bench. Gaitskell also demanded a showdown on controversial Clause 4 in the 1918 party constitution, calling...