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...himself a wealthy man, owner of a trucking business. Organized labor, civic groups, even suddenly hardy souls in the courthouse and city hall flocked to their side. Kenny had powerful connections. In Kenny's office on election night, listening to the returns, sat the Teamsters' czar, Dave Beck...
Ruppel moved to Crowell-Collier's as assistant to Board Chairman Tom Beck, then joined the Marines. After the war, Hearst hired him, sent him back to Chicago as $40,000-a-year executive editor of the Her aid-American. But Ruppel's slam-bang civic cleanup campaign (DIRTY SHIRT TOWN) backfired, and Hearst bought up his contract...
...into Collier's with new Editor Ruppel was a new publisher and old friend: Edward Anthony, 53, who succeeded retiring Publisher William L. Chenery, 64. Anthony will also stay on as publisher of Crowell-Collier's Woman's Home Companion (circ. 3,755,000), while Tom Beck plans to take a back seat and let the new team do the driving. Where was the team heading? Said Editor Ruppel: "What the editor of a weekly magazine is going to do he has to do once a week. You can read that in the magazine...
What if the truckers didn't want to be interviewed? Beck didn't foresee any trouble. The Teamster census takers have all been instructed to be very "courteous...
...checks are not unknown in the West, but this will be the first nationwide nose count, extending even to Canada. Over-the-road and other heavy duty truck drivers will come first. Later checks would tap cabbies, milk drivers and other workers in the domain ("everything on wheels") that Beck covets. Major target is the lush crop of unorganized truckers carting perishables from the South...