Word: becks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...occasion, Beck will take a visitor out back to point out the apartment above his four-car garage. (Actually, his two Lincolns are kept in another garage.) There stay the Compound's rotating bodyguards, constantly on hand because Beck is obsessed with the notion that an unknown "they" are trying to kidnap Dave Beck Jr., a walloping 35-year-old 210-pounder. "If you were out here alone," Beck tells his guest, "you'd be pinned back up against the wall...
There's No Place Like Home. From the windows in his office of the Teamsters' tan brick Seattle headquarters, Beck can point out across Taylor Avenue to five lots that he owns. Around the corner on Denny Way is the service station he co-owned with the Teamsters' Western Conference Chairman Frank Brewster (who recently sold his share, but not until after the station had sold the Teamsters at least $165,000 worth of service from 1950 to 1955). Near by are the two parking lots Beck bought for $28,000 and sold to the Teamsters...
...Real estate is my dish," blares Dave Beck, who has, since the Internal Revenue Bureau began investigating his finances, cashed in at least $900,000 in real-estate holdings. "Sure, I've made money with it. But that's also part of the way Dave Beck has increased the assets of the international union by $9,000,000 since he became president." In an analytic mood, an old Beck associate says: "When Dave talks about money, it's like some other guy talking about a beautiful broad -he gets a gleam in his eye. The only pinup...
Back at the Compound. Beck often spends a quiet evening with Dorothy, a gentle, grey-haired woman who suffers from high blood pressure. Beck likes to read ("I've read nearly everything ever written about Napoleon"; "I just got through Citadel by William White of the N.Y. Times, and incidentally, it's a hell of a condemnation of the excesses in congressional investigations"), and he also enjoys television. He dotes on big-money quiz shows. "I do fairly good on some of those questions," says Beck, in a rueful comparison with his answers on John McClellan...
Some nights Beck dresses in slacks and pocket-monogrammed smoking jacket to play host in the underground layout that is the real showplace of his home. Some of the Compound's boys are always on hand to run the 35-mm. CinemaScope movie projectors in his 45-seat theater. Others are ready to tend the bar, embellished with a union label and well stocked both in spirits and in soft drinks for Teetotaler Beck. Also on the underground level is a ballroom, complete with blond electric organ, a spinet piano, and a carefully illuminated portrait of the Teamsters...