Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Teamsters' growth went to Dave Beck, the red-haired son of a hard-working carpet cleaner and a laundress, who entered the union's ranks by way of a job as a laundry driver, and became West Coast organizer. The jurisdictional labor wars of the 1930s were groin-kicking, skullcracking, stink-bombing affairs, and Dave Beck's West Coast goon squad was the toughest of the lot. (One of its oldtime mugs last week recalled paying a Northwest trapper $100 a quart for attar of skunk juice to use in stink bombs.) Described as a physical coward...
...Teamsters' president, more than 600 Seattle business leaders gathered in the Olympic Hotel in December 1952. Co-chairmen were the publishers of the Seattle Times and of the Post-Intelligencer. Master of ceremonies was Brewer Emil Sick, chief beneficiary of the Beck-directed union war of the 1930s, when Beck permitted "not a single goddam drop" of Brewery Workers Union beer to enter the Northwest from California or the East. Cried Sick: "We respect you as a labor leader-the greatest...
...blood-gushing days of the 1930s, Frank Brewster, chief slugger for the Teamsters' Union on the West Coast, once walloped a cop in a picket-line brawl, was hauled off to headquarters, beaten almost to death -and arose from his knees to cut a swath of destruction with his manacled hands. But Frank Brewster decided he wanted to be more than a brick-fisted mug. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, From Goon to Gent...
...Siberia. The Hunters and the Hunted was written by a refugee from the Soviet Union who escaped to the West in World War II. His novel is set in the time of the mass purges during the 1930s and begins with an angry rhapsody to all those who suffered death, punishment and exile. The hero, a Ukrainian Cossack named Hryhory Mnohohrishny, has been sentenced as "an enemy of the State" to 25 years at the slave-labor camp at Kolyma on the frozen Sea of Okhotsk. Now he is one of thousands of prisoners jammed into a 60-car convict...
...understand all the complexities of the Federal Reserve Board actions to curtail credit buying, everyone in some way felt the effects. Business borrowing costs soared as high as 6% as FRB's discount rate on loans to member banks was raised to 3%, the highest point since the 1930s. Home mortgage rates jumped from 4½% to a peak 6% in some areas. As housing starts slipped to 1,100,000 in 1956, down 200,000 in a year, builders loudly blamed the money pinch. But there were dissenting voices. They argued that another reason for the slide...