Hoffa Picked Gibbons To Run Teamsters Affairs
Harold J. Gibbons, 54, an Irish American and one of 13 Teamsters vice presidents, heads union business as Hoffa fights legal battles. Once Hoffa's aide, Gibbons now earns 12 000 plus 150 weekly for Local 688 duties, while living in Kirkwood with his wife and son.
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Teamsters Union
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Teamsters
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University of Louisville
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Elizabeth Boggs
American University
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Gibbons Life Tied to Labor Movement and Unions
The narrative follows Gibbons from Pennsylvania to Chicago where he taught and wrote WPA textbooks during the 1930s mood. He organized Local 346 AF of Teachers, led taxicab drivers into the Teamsters, directed Local 688 RWDEU in St. Louis, and merged with the Teamsters in 1949. He became a political figure, attending the 1960 Democratic Convention and studying unions in France under the Marshall Plan.
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Chicago
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Works Project Administration
University of Wisconsin
American Federation of Teachers
University of Chicago
Wisconsin
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Teamsters Union
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St. Louis
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CIO
Atlantic City
France
U. S. Economic Cooperation Administration
International Teamsters
Harvard University
Burma Rice Cakes Known as Mon Le Bway
In Burma, rice cakes called mon le bway meaning whirl wind cake are described as crisp thin sheets feather light and filled with air bubbles.
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