Word: becks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...president of the mighty International Brotherhood of Teamsters and head of the I.B.T.'s Central Conference, with 500,000 members of about 340 locals in a twelve-state Midwestern empire. Moreover, he was in a position of deadly challenge to the Teamsters' aging (62) International President Dave Beck. Hoffa had run up a list of arrests, e.g., for brawling in a picket line, that he smilingly admitted was "as long as your arm." Even so, nearly everyone in organized labor figured that he was too smart to get into the sort of trouble that would halt his drive...
...intended all the while to pay the union back-still does. The trouble is that he does not really know how much he owes, since-Brewster said-a janitor had mistaken the Western Conference's pre-1954 records for trash (Brewster and the Teamsters' International President Dave Beck being under income-tax investigation at the time) and thrown them away...
After it finishes with Brewster, the McClellan committee plans to gear itself for Teamsters' President Dave Beck. Last week, at home in Seattle, Beck said he would decide whether or not to turn over his financial records to the committee after consulting with his newly retained lawyer: Pennsylvania's ex-Republican Senator James Duff.* But Committee Chairman John McClellan was having none of that. Beck, he said, must give the committee his records by this week or have them subpoenaed...
...held aloof from coronary disease are now showing interest. Even so, the reaming operations for coronary disease are likely to be limited to men under 55 who have localized obstructions-the older group, with more widespread disease, will probably have to rely on medical management or a Beck operation...
WASHINGTON, March 20--President Dave Beck of the Teamsters Union was ordered today to appear next Tuesday before Senate rackets investigators--and to bring his financial records for 1949 through...