Word: becks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Roulette Room of Miami Beach's Monte Carlo Hotel one morning last week, the leaders of big labor closed in on the chief of their biggest affiliate, hefty, bullet-headed Dave Beck, president of the 1,400,000 Teamsters. With the Auto Workers' Walter Reuther looking over his shoulder, A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany laid it on the line: "Look, Dave, you brought this on yourselves. We wouldn't have had to take this up now if you guys hadn't refused to testify...
...Drive. Minutes after Meany's outburst, the 29-member A.F.L.-C.I.O. council, with Dave Beck the sole dissenter, adopted a new and revolutionary code on government investigations into labor racketeering. Its point: although every individual has the constitutional right to plead the Fifth Amendment if called to .testify, union officers who take the Fifth have no right to hold their jobs. The policy is now binding on all A.F.L.-C.I.O. affiliates and locals under threat of expulsion...
Prime target of Carey's attack was the leadership of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s biggest and most rambunctious affiliate- Dave Beck's scandal-tainted, 1,400,000 member Teamsters. Two weeks ago, when the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations began a study of labor racketeering, it called in Teamster officers to testify on their use of union funds. The union brass, charging the subcommittee with a lack of jurisdiction, flatly refused to answer questions about their stewardship-e.g.: Had they used union funds to pay Dave Beck's personal bills? -and some of them took...
...soft-spoken Swabian who thinks like a general but looks like a professor (he once taught history at Tübingen University), Speidel is a cultivated specimen of the oldtime German general staffer. On his desk he keeps two photographs-one of the late General Ludwig Beck, the stiff-backed martinet who headed the German general staff 20 years ago, the other of turn-of-the-century German Dramatist Gerhart Hauptmann...
...first place," says a staffer on Seattle's weekly Argus (circ. 5.142), which has beaten the city's dailies on big local stories. Last week the Argus came out with a scorching editorial -first to appear in any Seattle paper- condemning the Teamsters Union in Dave Beck's home town for its "affront to the public" in refusing to answer Senate investigators' questions...