Word: becks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Teamsters President Dave Beck appeared before the McClellan Committee last March, he took the Fifth Amendment on questions about his misuse of union funds, shrilly boasted that he would prove his innocence in a court of law. He will soon have his chance: last week in Tacoma, Wash. a federal grand jury charged Beck* with evading $184,000 in income taxes for 1951, 1952, 1953. Added to the $56,000 for 1950 charged in another indictment last May. this makes Beck...
After word of the new indictment reached turnip-shaped Dave Beck in Los Angeles, where he was meeting with the Teamsters executive board, he called a press conference, passed the charges off as something that has happened to many a good, red-blooded American. Said Beck: "I've joined the army of hundreds of thousands all over the country that have been indicted for income taxes. It's happening every day all over America." Anyhow, his troubles were all the fault of the meddlesome U.S. Congress-which, cried Dave, has "one or more" former convicts among its members...
...Also indicted: Dave Beck Jr.; Mrs. Dave Beck Sr.'s cousin, Norman Gessert; Teamsters Auditor Fred Verschueren; Beck's pal and personal financier, Chicago Labor-Relations Consultant Nathan Shefferman; and Shefferman's son, Shelton...
...powerful barons of transportation were charges by the Ethical Practices Committee of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. that might get their whole brotherhood thrown out of the big union. The heart of their problem was best illustrated by the fouled sparkplugs brought along by the four biggest of them: bellowing Dave Beck, newly harassed (he cried) by some absurd vendetta of the income tax people; Minneapolis Teamster Vice President Sidney L. Brennan, convicted of accepting a bribe; Western Conference Chair man Frank Brewster, convicted of contempt of Congress; and, with topmost billing in the news, James Riddle Hoffa, chairman of the Central...
...International Brotherhood of Teamsters' fearsome West Coast goon squads, refused to answer the questions of the Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee on the grounds that it was exceeding its authority. Cited for contempt of Congress, the Teamsters' Vice President Brewster, goon companion of Teamster Boss Dave Beck, claimed that he had purged himself by later appearing before the special McClellan committee and telling how he had used Teamsters' money to finance, among other things, his racing stables. Despite this plea, made before a federal judge in Washington, Handsome Frank was convicted (TIME, July 8), and last week...