Word: becks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MALONE DIES (120 pp.)-Samuel Beck-e//_Grove Press...
UNION SALARIES for top executives are shooting up. United Steelworkers voted $10,000 boosts to President David J. McDonald and his two top aides, bringing McDonald's salary to $50,000 annually (same level as United Mine Workers' John L. Lewis and Teamsters' Dave Beck), those of his ranking aides to $35,000 annually...
...bounced the teamsters' Dave Beck, who says he voted for Eisenhower in 1952, "I move that we do not endorse either party," snapped Beck. "If we endorse, it will give the appearance of a division of labor." A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany stood with Beck against endorsement-but for different reasons. Meany had been vastly disappointed by the civil-rights planks of both the Democratic and Republican Conventions; moreover, he recalled the injunction of an A.F.L. founder, Samuel Gompers, against labor becoming too closely identified with either major political party. "Look," boomed Meany, walloping the table with the flat...
...minority, forced centralized city purchasing, establishment of a police training school, a shutdown of gambling halls and brothels, and a $2,000,000 slash in a fat budget. In 1936 the Cincinnatus decided to run one of their councilmen for mayor, picked Arthur Langlie. He lost to Dave Beck's friend, John Dore, by 5,000 votes, filed again two years later, won by 30,000. He was re-elected in 1940 without making a speech or spending a cent of campaign money. Soon afterward, he was visited by a delegation of eastern Washington Republicans bearing 25,000 names...
Dawson Trotman clambered back into a motorboat one day last week after two hours of waterskiing on Schroon Lake, N.Y. He was dog-tired, but before he settled down he asked one of the two girls in the boat, Allene Beck, if she could swim; when she shook her head, he traded places with her so she would be in a safer spot. Minutes later the speeding boat bounced on a wave, and both of them, the 50-year-old man and the girl, shot into the water. He swam to her and held her head above water until...