Word: becks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beating up C. I. O. coalyard owner-drivers, three A. F. of L. teamsters went to trial in Seattle last week. This routine court item was news in Seattle and all along the Pacific Coast. Reason: They were Dave Beck's teamsters...
Pallid, big-boned, secretive Colonel Josef Beck, active Polish Foreign Minister who recently visited Sweden, then Estonia, was off again last week on another flying trip as advance agent for his proposed Eastern European Bloc. Idea of the Beck Bloc, it is rumored, is that all the little countries which lie in the area of a possible future war should form a neutral belt between Nazi Germany and Bolshevik Russia, should appear at Geneva before the next League Assembly and secure officially for themselves a recognized neutrality status similar to that of Belgium. They would ask to be released from...
...Colonel Beck flew from Warsaw to talk this over last week with the Foreign Minister of Latvia, brilliant young Vilhelms Munters, who emerged as a leading small-power statesman when he recently chair-manned the League Advisory Committee on the Far East. En route to Latvia, Colonel Beck created a great Baltic stir by becoming the first Polish Cabinet Minister ever to set foot on Lithuania's soil. On July 1 normal railway service was restored between Poland and Lithuania after a lapse of 18 years during which these two nations, created after the World War, had remained quarreling...
Organizers in the drive are: Adams House, Ralph H. Gibbon '38 and Aaron J. Himelhoch '38; Dunster House, Rendig T. Fels '39; Winthrop House, Robert Beck '39; Leverett House, Robert Buka '38; Lowell House, Walter P. Arenwald '38; Eliot House, Robert Cumming '38. Freshman dormitories are organized into committees headed by Edward...
Died. John Francis Dore, 56, mayor of Seattle, Wash.; of heart trouble and blood poisoning; in Seattle. Bristling supporter of powerful A. F. of L. Teamster Union Chieftain David Beck, he often admitted: "Dave Beck runs this town." Mayor on & off since 1932, he was defeated in this year's primaries, would have been replaced in June by Businessman Arthur B. Langlie...