Word: becks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another room contains a couple of dozen typewriters, Western Union and Postal Telegraph press blank, and a dozen messengers ready at the beck and call of reporters who have been forced to reduce the gross poundage of learned papers to one readable story. The heads of the science departments of the three big wire services, the AP, the UP, and the INS, as well as three or four men from each Boston paper and from several other out of town papers, were also present. Science Service, an organization specializing in the gathering of all scientific news, sent a large fraction...
Neither Purse Nor Sword or the Menace to the Union (Macmillan, $2) was nearly finished when Pennsylvania's onetime Representative James Montgomery ("The Constitution") Beck died. Upon his death it was finished by Merle Thorpe, editor of The Nation's Bttsiness. Its opening sentence: "It is an interesting coincidence that at the very time when Edward Gibbon was approaching the completion of his monumental work-the 'mighty epitaph' of the greatest republic of ancient times-a small group of men assembled in Philadelphia were creating a new republic in the western world which, in point...
...members of the Guild struck there fortnight ago to protest the discharge of two old-time P.I. staffmen who had been active in the Guild, the typographical workers elaborately explained that they dared not risk their necks passing through the picket lines, stayed away also. Under Labor Boss Dave Beck, moving force of Seattle's Central Labor Council, a cordon of demonstrators from the American Federation of Teachers (see p. 35) and the Teamsters', Lumbermen's and Longshoremen's Unions tied the plant up tight. Publisher William Vaughn Tanner was thereupon obliged to ''suspend...
...consequence whatsoever. . . . Only two questions are involved: Is the Constitution of the State of Washington valid? Is the Constitution of the United States in effect?" His queries he answered himself: "The Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Washington were suspended by one Dave Beck, head of the Teamsters' Union, and one John Dore, Mayor of Seattle. Gone is constitutional government. Gone is majority rule and the freedom of speech. Seattle is now the plaything of a dictator...
...Philadelphia is not finicky about having a Congressman really live in the district he represents. In 1927 the late James M. Beck, who lived in Washington and summered in New Jersey, was given a House nomination by the Vare machine, promptly rented a sleazy apartment in a poor district of Philadelphia which he never actually occupied. Following his election, his right to a House seat was challenged on the Constitutional ground that he did not live in Pennsylvania. A cocky Republican majority in the House overrode the evidence against him, seated him regardless...