Tag: Q1 1959
Teamster’s Jukebox Shakedown: Senate Rackets Committee Investigates
In a shocking revelation, the Senate Rackets Committee has been told of alleged efforts by a Teamster Union official to strong-arm jukebox owners in the Chicago area. According to Robert Lindleoff, a Skokie, Illinois jukebox operator and president of Music Operators of Northern Illinois, a trade association, he was repeatedly asked to feature a record…
Budget Scandal Rocks Capitol Hill, Brownings, Montana, 1959
Washington D.C. – The stench of corruption wafts through the hallowed halls of Capitol Hill as a proposed bill seeks to impose a strict code of ethics on state legislators and departments. But will it be enough to clean up the mess that is the state’s Highway Department and Conservation Department? A scandal brewing in…
