Word: becks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like Dave Beck doesn't just happen," mused Seattle's Episcopal Bishop Stephen Bayne last week...
...could only arise out of a ruthless disregard of ethics 'and morality by both labor and management. I've never met Beck, and I've seen him only once, but my reaction always has been colored by the way he first came to my attention. It was from a businessman who was so callous about the whole deal, who'd .lent his strength to Beck because Beck could deliver the goods...
Bishop Bayne was only one of thousands of Seattleites talking and thinking about Teamster Boss Dave Beck last week, as the nation's 20th largest city examined its conscience for having let Beck, a longtime resident, use Seattle as his oyster. To be sure, Beck used a bludgeon to crack open his oyster; it was the bludgeon of Teamster power. Equally true, Seattle at first accepted Beck with the greatest reluctance and mostly because it seemed a choice between him and the Red-led waterfront boys of Harry Bridges. But once Seattle did accept Beck, it went...
Against the Light. "I'm not making any excuses for Beck," says a Seattle retailer. "But I can remember how, until recently, friends of mine would cross the street in traffic against the light just to be able to greet him because it might come in handy...
...Dave Beck, Seattle now knows-and long suspected-decided what Eastern beer the city could or could not drink. The chief editorial writer of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer turned up on the Teamster payroll as Dave Beck's biographer. When Beck was named international president of the Teamsters, Seattle's most influential men gathered at a dinner to cheer him on with a stout hurrah. Some alumni may have winced inwardly when Beck was named president of the University of Washington board of regents-but they did precious little protesting. Beck could walk into the eminently respectable First...